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Gone from Burnside. Car lot.

When Matt lived in Southeast off of Sandy, and I lived downtown I used to walk to his house on a regular basis, mostly crossing the Burnside Bridge. Today I had to run an errand after school and it was quicker to walk back. So I noticed that the used car lot at the corner of Burnside and MLK has gone away. I wonder when that happened?

City of Roses Motel: More framing.

They’ve been making progress. I’m not sure what will happen first. Will it be light in the morning when I walk to the train, or they will finish this building?

City of Roses Motel: wood frames rising.

We have the beginnings of a wall. You can see that the back side of the building wall is mostly framed.

City of Roses Update. Hard concrete.

It’s hard enough that I see guys walking on it in the mornings.

Now the building begins.

Postcard from Texas (by way of California)

This is from regular commenter Jan, who bought this when she visited Austin for a wedding. She tells me it’s her favorite postcard of Austin that she has ever seen.

Me too! It was particularly great picking it out of the rest of the mail because I really had to study it to get it in the right direction and the cognitive dissonance while that happened was very fun.

It’s winter. I don’t care what the calendar says.

This much rain, this cold? You are looking at full-on winter in Portland Oregon.

Postcard from the Czech Republic

It seems Hafidha wasn’t the only one in Prague this autumn. I received this card from my dad and his wife. This is the Dancing House. Very fun!

A bit of downtown.

This is the window of John Helmer, Haberdasher, where I would purchase all my hats, were I of the male persuasion.

But mostly I took these pictures so I could remember these great candy cane hanging ornaments.

While I was waiting on friend, I watched this ballerina get her photo taken.

City of Roses Motel. More concrete.

Now we don’t just have vertical concrete, we have horizontal concrete.

Random Song: Unbelivers by Vampire Weekend.

Vampire Weekend is my gin and tonic, my motivation to clean the house, my pep-me-up music. Listening to them, I transform into a carefree girl spending the summer on the Cape with nothing but leisure before me.

As an unbeliever myself, I particularly love this song.

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