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Just back from a jaunt to Seattle amazed anew by the fun of taking the train. The stations are beautiful, it’s calm and quiet. You can walk around. You don’t have to wear a seat belt or be strip-searched before getting on. You arrive and discover you aren’t stressed or harassed. It’s American. It’s nice. […]

or “tidying the export folder”. A few left-over images I never posted this week which will just look totally random–and are. Tomorrow I head north to Seattle on the train for the weekend quilting with sister-in-law LeeAnn, hanging out with brother Bruce. More on the trip next week but for now: The beautiful round brick […]

but it does have qualities. The satellite dish, the trailer hitch coming out of cement block, no stairs. Roger has a sort of trailer fantasy–trailer-as-writer’s- office-in-back-yard (I think he’s thinking Airstream…) so we always notice them.

Don’t you just love how one thing leads to another? Searching for the memeo-matic a couple of weeks ago we found The Cup and Saucer and Winston’s at 30th and Killingsworth: Wending our way south after breakfast we found the corner of N. Williams & Russell, a corner painted by Charles Heaney in the 1920’s […]

So we read in the Oregonian this week about the church designed by Pietro Belluschi in 1950. As the parish waned in numbers and money was scarce, the congregation decided to take down the 58 year old bell tower which needed repair. Not so fast. It’s historic. They’re now raising the $150,000 it will cost […]

So we get to Portland and grab a quick coffee before we walk around. Not a truly beautiful coffee but…… Spring has come to the neighborhood and not only trees are blooming…. but there’s a new crop of music posters causing me to picture the moment this one group said “How about ‘Climber Siberian and […]

It’s been a low news week on Court Street, but here’s what we have: The noisy masons have finished and gone. A stolen basket ball standard has been left in a parking place, The kids working in the anarchy press office, which has sadly taken over a beautiful historic house on our corner, have lost […]

Went out for coffee today, asked for a “real” cup. Got this un-lovely sub-standard coffee brought in a paper cup. Tsk.

The beach this weekend was the usual place of discovery. After a long beach walk and with our pockets full of treasures, we went to Mo’s for a bowl of clam chowder. We weren’t the only people with this idea, but luckily got a table with a view. We stared out at the bay (me) […]

In January I visited the new studio under construction at Irene’s house for painter Jon Colburn (see post for Jan. 24,08). Yesterday I stopped by to check progress so here’s an update: