Photo Walks

[olivermoss]

If I can manage to get into the rhythm I want with photowalks, I'll be doing a lot. So I'm currently going to post once a week about them rather than be posting like every other day. Who knows, maybe in a few weeks I'll have horrible dry spells with finding things to shoot and it wont be a problem.

Portland still hasn't paved all of it's streets. There was a plan to finally pave all the roads, but I assume Covid derailed that because there has been no progress. Anyway, I love this picture:



Roadway not improved? Portland, that is a lawn with a tree! I realize others wont find this as funny as I do, but I love my pics of Portland's lack of infrastructure ... partially because I've had people not believe me or act like I am being twee. No, when I say cute flats wont cut it walking in parts of the city this is what I mean. willsmith.gif

Getting groceries the other day I saw a cat stalking plastic crows, then the cat came down and demanded pettings:






Happy St. Paddy's Day!



The same yard a few days previous:



I'd actually been looking for those Game of Thrones skellingtons when I found the flower crown one from a previous post. Surprise, surprise, the pictures I saw had the wrong location tagged! But, searching that wrong location gave me one of my fave yard art pics to date (top pic of this post). I found the real location by looking back at the pictures and seeing the house number was in the shot and basically deduced the location.

Also, from digging I found they have an instagram! So, I saw that they changed the scene the day after I'd been there. Now I can just swing by every time there is a new shot.



How many yarn hearts pics do I have now? It's a lot. I am assuming it's the same artist:





Little Free Library next to a community pantry:



Little Free Library on top of a community pantry:



Little Free Library with reading bench:



Cool house. It was hard to get a decent pic of it in the darkness:



I really like how they are making that living archway entrance to their property, but it was a hard detail to make pop in those lighting conditions. Also a lot of stuff was in the way of me standing in a good location for the shot.

Good thing I already shot that one yarn bombing because now there is a couch in the way:



I got the yarn bombing shot walking N/S streets and last night part of my path was finally walking Holgate, a street I kept planning to walk but always wound up somewhere else. Last night I finally just walked Holgate.

A while ago I started a project to walk the full length of every street in Portland, but I only counted daytime walking. I haven't been tracking all the night walking I've been doing. It's getting harder to not retread the same ground, so I am going to start tracking my night walking. I'll likely do it on the same map, just in a lighter pen color so I can tell the difference.

This is cool, but I have no idea how it's supposed to be a portrait of:



And one last little skeleton:

Comments

[james]

That sounds like the road has had its annual assessment and its boss is very disappointed in it. Or its first grade end of semester report.

[olivermoss]

It will never be a Roads Scholar at this rate.

[james]

Buh dump dum!

[mistressofmuses]

These are great! I do love the unimproved road, lol. That seems like a DRASTIC understatement.

[olivermoss]

Portland's infrastructure is such a mess. People not from the area don't tend to believe locals about the dirt roads and the flooding, so I take a special petty joy in my stash of Portland Infrastructure shots.

[dine]

your Portland photos are so wonderful - excellent reminders of some of what I love about living here

[olivermoss]

Thanks! There is a lot of cool stuff out there, and a lot of it is skeletons.

[luthienberen]

The cat and petting is my favourite (unsurprisingly) but all the photos are fantastic. Portland is a fun place for Halloween/spooky decorations! I always think of Grimm with Portland (and those zombie doughnuts from the Man versus Food episode when he visited Portland).

Edit. I like the house with the archway x

[olivermoss]

Voodoo Donuts! Still one of our best known food places.

Thanks!

[luthienberen]

I couldn't recall the name of the doughnut restaurant so thank you!