This much rain, this cold? You are looking at full-on winter in Portland Oregon.
It’s winter. I don’t care what the calendar says.
Category: Structures
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.
Afternoon walk on N. Mississippi
Supposedly, if this billboard is to be believed, this very skinny building will be constructed. I find it interesting because the land to the right of the supposed building is the large expanse of open space where the ghost stairs I documented in this post. Apparently this piece of land was separate from the ghost stairs land.
I’m quite glad I wasn’t sitting under this deck/porch/cover when it collapsed.
That post just snapped. I’m betting this wasn’t built to code.
Really pretty art on the side of a building.
Full picture.
5th Ave Cinema
Despite living downtown and in close-in Southwest for a number of years before I moved to North Portland, I never made it to 5th Avenue Cinemas. This is the movie theater on the PSU campus that I’m guessing is run by students. They show an eclectic mix of films (aside from Mala Noche, Gremlens was playing) weekly on Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday afternoons. Their windows display the films screened during the quarter.
A display in the theater.
The lobby. When you pay your admission, you get free popcorn! There are also drinks and candy for sale.
A peek at the screen.
Should you need to take notes, the chairs have desks.
This was a special screening with special people in attendance. There’s Walt Curtis on the left, with Satryicon bouncer Bruno and the nice guy who introduced them. Walt Curtis wrote the chapbook that became the movie Mala Noche. I’m unclear why Bruno was there. You can read an interview that the Willamette Week did with Mr. Curtis by clicking here. The article pretty much accurately captures what it was like during the question and answer session after the movie.
Nice detail
Aside from the striped awnings, which are great, I loved the wrought iron details on the porch of this house. I’ve not been to New Orleans, but I imagine this to be a very NOLA house.
City of Roses update: walls.
Based on where the walls are, it looks like there will be no parking in whatever this will be.
This part of the construction seems to go so slowly. I think it’s probably because the concrete has to set and that takes time.
Grabbing a photo of this house while I can.
I’ve always liked this cheery little house on Interstate, one block north of Killingsworth. I’m a fan of houses that have most of their yard in front of them. However the “zoned RH-D” sign in the front yard tells me this fellow is not long for this world. The shadow encroaching on the house is a multi-story mixed-use building of condos that went in a few years ago. Which means someone is going to want to put three or more townhouses on this lot.
Pictures from my “snow” day.
It started as a two-hour delay. Here are the three ways I’m informed of school delays and closures: via text message, via the app FlashAlert and via email.
The two hour delay turned into a full day off because of worsening conditions.
Fine by me. I used the time to cut out the Lined Swedish Shade I’m working on for my bedroom. You can see I had a good helper.
Here is the back part of the shade. It might be familiar to you as it was material left over from my uniform shirt/dress. I have blackout curtain fabric on top of the blue.
Here is what it will look like when I get it all sewed together, though right now I’ve just folded the blue over the top of the bird fabric. I love this fabric. It’s from Ikea. My favorite two birds are the blue and the orange. I like to think Matt is the blue one (his favorite color) and I’m the orange one (my favorite color.) Aren’t we cute, sitting there talking?
I met Tiffany downtown for a drink–plans we had for “after school” on Thursday. We just shifted them to “after snow day” instead.
On the way back I took this picture of drippy ice. The roads were fine, though.
Good job, wind!
Just last week I noticed that the same billboard has been up since at least June 6, when I wrote this blog post. “What we need is a good windstorm to scour that right off the billboard.” I thought to myself.
And the wind did provide.