Auxiliary Portland Pictures

What follows are some pictures from around Portland I took while on our most recent trip. 

This first one is a neat sculpture of wood and metallic corner details:

Among the many bike stores and camera stores (at least three! that could be an entire post by itself), there were a handful of used record stores, which is always good to see:

This is Pioneer Square and the courthouse at the end of it. It had a bas relief word marking on it saying "Pioneer Courthouse", so I'm not sure whether or not it's still in use. We were going to visit the site during our trip, but missed it until the very end, as the metro to the airport picks up right next to it:

These are artsy sculptures that collect sunlight to power the metro stop fixtures that are right there. That's the Rose Garden---aka basketball arena---in the background, and this is one of the metro stops associated with the arena:

Big mural or advertisement, on the side of the riverside factory. "Long Live Oregonians", aka "white people". Seriously, any ethnic people in the mural/advertisement? Maybe one?

Here are some of the stained-glass windows at Voodoo Doughnuts:

Roses, roses everywhere, so lets all have a sniff:

Tricky, Tricky

I need to do this for my phone, oddly enough.

Nothing to see here...

Limekiln Wildlife: Critters Edition

Here are some pictures of the animals we saw during our Limekiln camping trip:

In the first five minutes after getting there, there was a deer roaming the grounds, and I caught him like a ghost in the upper right-hand corner of this exposure:

An obvious addition to any trip to a California coast--seabirds:

Banana slugs in the wild! I'd never seen one before. It was pretty small, and I remember thinking, Who left a golden pepper out here? But it was moving! Cool:

Be careful and wary: smelly elephant seals brawling in the surf:

And sunning on the beach:

The big male on the upper right is nearly as big as my old Datsun 240-Z.

Look Out!

Piranhas! Attacking the Jungle Cruise ship, a rare specie that loves the sunny afternoons of Anaheim:

Pretty cool effect, anyway...

Columbus Circle

There was a cool scene from Taxi Driver where they frame the Senator Palantine during one of his speeches at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, with his arms raised matching the statue, but both heads being cropped out of the picture, to show Travis' disconnect from the rest of the world. But I went by and took a few pictures of the zone for myself. The first two are of the same statue, Columbus, but from different angles:

The specific statue from Taxi Driver:

Going for a taste?

Who gets it?

Me and my Wire references...

Taking Pictures of my Computer Screen

The above picture is of my computer screen as I examine Google Maps. It was late at night and I was trying to get a sense of my morning bike ride. I ride from the white arrow on the right hand side to the whitish patch a half-inch away from the pen's point.

Sometime soon I'll have some better pictures of this area, otherwise known as "The 'Hood".