Saturday, February 7, 2009
Outstanding Saturday Outing
it's downtown on a pleasant but cool Saturday with out of town relations. You can let yourself go a little bit. You end up checking things out and maybe seeing some parts of your city differently than you would otherwise. And I just couldn't resist the Elliot Erwitt like moment either.
I certainly have never checked out the lower deck passage of the Steel Bridge and it had been many many years since I had walked Front Avenue to Union Station. An Amtrak Cascades passed by a long Union Pacific freight run as bikes and joggers and folks just out walking across town like us on a fine morning making its way to noon.
If you are native or near native to the Pacific NW, there is something about the shade of yellow of a UP engine that is hard to describe. It is the color of train we saw on decades of calendars in offices and classrooms. It always seemed bright even on a cloudy day. Rocky the Great Northern Goat took a distant second to this golden hue.
Two images of Pam through glass of two relatively new Portland phenomena. First from the outside of one of the streetcars that travels from the boho of NW Portland to the Southern waterfront. The second of her and Lillian from the bubble of the Portland tram just before it took her father Werner and I up Marquam Hill to the university hospital, a ride we took for touristic pleasure on this sunny Saturday where the top of Rainier kind of merged off to the left of Mt St Helens twenty eight and a half months after it misbehaved in a most dramatic way.
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