Portland Farmers Market

 Monochrome on a gray day in Portland - but the produce keeps coming year-round.

Downtown Scenes

Just three Portland scenes that struck me for their graphic quality, with no particular meaning or connection.

Resist Covid/Take 6!

Famed photographic artist (and Portland native) Carrie Mae Weems has teamed up with museums and students around the country to produce campaigns of public awareness to resist Covid 19 (which strikes people of color with particular ferocity) through social distancing (hence the "Take 6!" feet) and other public health measures. Here are some of the signs emanating from the Portland Art Museum.

Downtown Portland Skyline

 Two views, at slightly different angles, of a modest but diverse section of Portland's skyline.

Hoyt Arboretum Branches

 Arboreal calligraphy

Arboretum Water Tank

In early January we made an excursion to the Hoyt Arboretum in Portland's Washington Park. In addition to the many species of trees (see tomorrow's blog) it has a large water tank atop a central hill. The tank's dark blues and greens in the late afternoon light struck me as particularly interesting.

CEID Colors

The warehouses in Portland's Central Eastside Industrial District, near the railroad tracts and the river, have been colorfully decorated during these unsettled times. Restless times make restless art?

Pearl Scenes

Seen while walking around the north Pearl District in Portland.

 

CEID District Portraits

In the warehouse district, near the train tracks and the river, of the Central Eastside Industrial Deevelopment District in Portland.

Oregon Garden (Part 2)

The continuation of yesterday's post.

Oregon Garden (Part 1)

About an hour's drive south of Portland in Silverton, Oregon is Oregon Garden, an 80-acre botanical garden and tourist attraction. We enjoyed a couple of hours wandering around at the end of December, and expect to return. There were enough pretty sights to warrant two blog postings.