this will be where i will post some reflections on my visit to the most bodacious town of portland oregon.
it may be a paraphrase but i think our hosts steve and erin quoted dave hickey speaking of their home town : "i hate portland --it feels like it was made for eight year olds." perhaps they can correct the record if thats too far off, but what i think he was getting after is just how utterly inner-child friendly and nurturing the topography is. light rails, bike lanes, flowerbeds, container plantings, terrible but climbable public sculpture, waterfronts, public water parks, skateboard parks. no litter. no fucking liter at all. even the entrance ramps to the highways are filled in with all sorts of flowering plants and well groomed green lawn. ...but i suspect hickeys quote goes even deeper.
this trip was all about our friends steve and erin getting married. that union was celebrated by a wonderful ceremony overseen and consecrated by our own alex wilson. our party of seven flew in from new york and proceeded to eat our way through oregeon.
in shear volume fresh oysters on the half shell at jakes was the runaway favorite. feel free to post comments on the varieties here. (if that menue can jog memory / we shoould have kept an oyster diary!)
hi linda, more to follow
And you have some pictures a few posts back...
signed, tree nerd
here. its a chaotic tree.
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this will be where i will post some reflections on my visit to the most bodacious town of portland oregon.
it may be a paraphrase but i think our hosts steve and erin quoted dave hickey speaking of their home town : "i hate portland --it feels like it was made for eight year olds." perhaps they can correct the record if thats too far off, but what i think he was getting after is just how utterly inner-child friendly and nurturing the topography is. light rails, bike lanes, flowerbeds, container plantings, terrible but climbable public sculpture, waterfronts, public water parks, skateboard parks. no litter. no fucking liter at all. even the entrance ramps to the highways are filled in with all sorts of flowering plants and well groomed green lawn. ...but i suspect hickeys quote goes even deeper.
- bill 7-06-2005 8:33 pm
this trip was all about our friends steve and erin getting married. that union was celebrated by a wonderful ceremony overseen and consecrated by our own alex wilson. our party of seven flew in from new york and proceeded to eat our way through oregeon.
in shear volume fresh oysters on the half shell at jakes was the runaway favorite. feel free to post comments on the varieties here. (if that menue can jog memory / we shoould have kept an oyster diary!)
- bill 7-06-2005 9:01 pm [add a comment]
i remember:
Goose Point Oysters
Kumamoto Oysters
i think they were offering at least a dozen varieties
- bill 7-06-2005 9:21 pm [add a comment]
hi linda, more to follow
- bill 7-07-2005 2:10 am [add a comment]
And you have some pictures a few posts back...
signed, tree nerd
- tom moody 7-07-2005 2:18 am [add a comment]
here. its a chaotic tree.
- bill 7-07-2005 2:40 am [add a comment]