Portland trip - July 2017

Unedited photos of Portland, OR; Columbia River; Hood River; and waterfalls.

No Photos of people; they are in the next post.

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Portland - walking around the city.

Art work -- all around the city.

"Lord Pound" graffiti in the Lloyd district. 

Just walking in the park.

Mt. Hood.

Columbia River

Mt. Hood.

Photo crowd at the Arial Tram (top)

City from top of tram

Tram on its way down.

From the Rose Garden

Columbia River, Hood River, and Waterfalls.

Walking around Portland

Japanese Gardens

(the end ... camera battery died...)

Plan B: aka "Life after the Work Thing stops interfering with the Life Thing"

Today's find:

Many colleges and universities offer free tuition for retired people.  The starting age for the programs vary, but some start at 60.  Today's find is Go-60, which is a program of Penn State University.  It is available at Main Campus and at the satellite campuses.  As always, the course offerings vary across campuses.  Links:

General Program information:  http://ceup.psu.edu/state-college/go-60-program

Abington Campus program: http://abington.psu.edu/go-60

Some programs, such as Graphic Design, are only offered at Main Campus.

Road Trip - Bellefonte, PA; Penn's Cave; Jersey Shore, PA

Road trip to Centre County, PA













Touring around town........

 

Took the walking tour - historic houses


hills: up both sides of the town.




Wandering around the park:









Victorian (and other styles)





A trip to Jersey Shore, PA:
(why is the town called "Jersey Shore" ?. I suspect it's a large joke. It's next to a very large island in the west branch of the Susquehanna River, called "Long Island". So, if you cross the river from Long Island to the mainland, it should be called "Jersey Shore").

Penn's Cave.
(It's a cave - it's dark, not great for pictures).  Cave is 52 degrees, water is 38 degrees. No bats in summer - need to tour in winter to see the bat colony.  According to guide, white-nose bat disease does not affect bats in this cave - too much fresh air circulates.

Shofuso. Japanese House & Gardens. Fairmount Park. Philadelphia, PA

15 Turkey Vultures in a tree, watching me shovel snow in the driveway. 5:15pm on 2/14/15










4:30am. Small storm passing through - 55 mph wind gusts...

Later - Walking this weekend, waiting for my knee to heal so i can run again. Cooking for the winter - made a Greek (Crete) stew last night. Spinach, butter beans, tomatoes, zucchini, bugler wheat, spices. Very filling.  Should last for several days. 

Do not have a good book to read.... so, watching many documentaries.  I pick them by subject & description, but quite a few have been by Werner Herzog: Into the Abyss was tonight's.   Also -  This is Myanmar.  (Both from Netflix).  I highly recommend them both - intricate and complex subjects and film treatments - they both need long discussions for thorough dissection. Found another Herzog, also by accident: Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. Interesting, but i keep wondering about his intent, and thinking that he needed an editor.  Things happened on the screen, and people were doing things, and I wanted to know more about what i saw. I think Werner wants us to immerse ourselves into the visual experience and WATCH !.

The woman who sold us this house (as we bought it in 2005) -----> has died. They raised 7 children in a 3-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath (4 bedrooms, if you count the uninsulated and unheated attic). Life was different in 1960's and 70's. 

Beach - August 2014

Guess where ?