Top photo: Sudden warm weather always inspires this sort of thing. Sometime next week she'll snap out of it and wonder where she left her shoes. They were still at the 1st & Oak MAX stop when I saw them. But you probably ought to hurry if you think you'll ever want them back. Or I suppose you could just buy a new pair instead. These may be last year's shoes, for all I know. It's not my area of expertise, I'm afraid.

In case you hadn't figured it out yet, this is yet another photo post. Yep, another one, and even bigger than usual, I'm afraid. It's not all photos of flowers this time though. See, I really am flexible, a little, sort of.




The weathervane on top of the old Henry Weinhard brewery, now part of the Brewery Blocks development. I'd never really looked at it before, but it's pretty great: A stalk of barley, and a brewer's grain shovel (I think).

Did I mention that Portland's Spring Beer & Wine Festival...

Fall has arrived in the Pacific Northwest, and we are welcoming the season with open arms. On local television news, in addition to the forecast including a much greater percentage of rainy days, you will find that most stations include a "color" forecast. The color forecast describes the peak time for the fall leaves changing colors.

The prognostication that I caught puts the peak season in the latter two weeks of October, but as you might imagine, the guess is highly subjective (seems fitting that the weather person does the guesswork). It is already in full swing at our place, and is lighting up the hillside across the Willamette.

Paul and Sharon - The visitors from Hell
Just kidding.

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