Portland! Oregon!

Had a wonderful travel to Oregon.  I've loved Portland for years.  A great city to get my 'urban fix'. Eminently walkable, vital but still on a smaller scale.  Tutto bene friendly and cool of attitude.  My son and daughter-in-law moved to Oregon 2 years ago, so now Oregon has become an annual trip.  Lucky me. Thanks kids!

We fly into Eugene and we like to stay in the U of O campus area, funky and fun.  My son lives in a small city south of Eugene, where they have managed to gather an wonderful 'family' of interesting people.  We then traveled to Portland up some of the coastal road, which was neat, even though most of the time we couldn't actually see the ocean herself due to fog.  A side trip to he funky city of Astoria. And then time in Portland.

In Portland ,we stayed in a cozy rental apartment in the Nobb Hill/Alphabet District area of Portland, which has become our favorite area, our 'home' in Portland.  Walking, walking, walking and oh the many restaurants, breweries and coffee shop.  A perfecto urban venture.

I collected my usual photos of oddities, signs, murals and the like, capturing the oddling vibe I seem to need to have.  Lucky me.

Portland 2014

   

Whew - weddings, moving, next steps & more

Well, where have I been??? I can tell you I have not been in the studio very much but I have had a few moments.  In late June my son's girlfriend got a great job in Oregon, in a little town 3 hours south of Portland.  Not the bright lights of that coolest city Portland, but it is in Oregon and a career move.  So a big move was on the horizon.  Next they decided to get married before the move, so wedding planning crowded the horizon as well.  In the end we had a lovely, Renaissance-Fair-type wedding - all vegan just as they wanted - and eventually shipped two young people who had yet to live far from family across the country to the next stage of their life.

The brides mum is a talented theater costumer and she made the bride's fantasy wedding gown and the groom's magical garments.  She also provide various bits and pieces of costume for the groomsmen as well.

I got in the act a bit with an art-shoe centerpiece for the head table.

The Magickal Wedding Party en costume

The Wedding Shoe

Sometimes birthdays are a godsend.  I like to make mini-collages for cards and it gets me back to working images once again.

Retro Birthday

Dancers a la Turkey

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