Saturday, October 10, 2009
Vancouver Saturday 10.10.09
Last week Kalama. This week Vancouver, my home town. Both weeks had stupendous weather. Next Week is Marcell's Coffee Shop One Year Anniversary Street Party. Can we hit three in a row?
I started to edit these pictures I took of my wandering by Kiggins Bowl late this aftenoon with all kinds of Reagan Morning in America sentiments raging. But then I looked at this picture closer and wondered if the guy with the number one sign is smoking or playing a Kojak and also if the coach has an itch.
Kiggins Bowl is a helluva slab of concrete slapped on a hill. It will be there for a long while to come
Hot Fun in the Summertime? Not hardly. Its the tenth day of the tenth month. Levrich Park used to only get crowds like this when Little Leagues and companies would old their picnics. Usually this time of year all you would find were weirdos, groping teens, and pandhandlers taking breaks from their sign shifts at the freeway exit on the other side of the park (a place worth a post of its own someday)
No. What brings this crowd to perviously lonesome and sometimes loathsome Levrich Park on 39th St and Levirch Park Way is Disc Golf, which I have to admit I thought was pretty goofy until I saw some folks working on a "hole" that required one to fly their disk off of a cliff.
Players are quite a bunch. I'm figuring a lot of these folks go to Dave Matthews concerts, and snowboard a lot. You got to give them props though. This park could get pretty pitiful without people.
There ain't no denying it. I am a child at the bottom of the I5 corridor and it has its charms. I kind of dig it. On the other side of Leverich Park, 46th and Leverich Park Way (if you can't tell by the street sign), there is a trailhead for a trail dedicated to a senior citizen who was seriously into walking and hiking. I went on a group hike with Ellen Davis as lead one time. She practically bounded up a hill. The park is in a gully parallel to the freeway and extends from the north end of Leverich to the southern border of Ross Substation property, which I did not visit on this particular day.
This was the big surprise of the day. I did not realize you could stand in the intersection of 44th, the street i live on and Washington Street and see all the way into downtown Portland. Look closely right above the bicyclist.
In my imagination I see Vancouver's Washington Street, which runs north>south intersect with the Washington that runs from east>west. in downtown Portland.
posted by well-executed buffet at 9:12 PM
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