Sarah has a friend visiting this week, and we used the opportunity to schedule a quick day trip to the coast. We acquired plenty of salt water taffy (of course), saw the magical place where all the delicious Tillamook cheese comes from, and stopped at a few viewpoints to snap some photos, like this one.
I’ll be making some long overdue changes to this site soon. Gotta keep up with the times, right?
I’ve noticed that Kevin has been doing a Friday Flickr feature on his blog, and I thought “Surely this a good idea for me!” because 1) I have been noticeably lax on producing new content lately due to a variety of circumstances, and 2) the handful of people who read my blog and who have not consumed alcohol with my lately would probably like some assurance that I am still alive and in control of most of my faculties.
Unfortunately I had this idea late on Friday and proceeded to be rather busy on Saturday, so this first Friday Flickr is happening on a Sunday (I know, right? I guess I should probably get that New Year’s Eve recap post up soon too).
To start with, this photo that I took in the command center of my newly constructed secret underground headquarters.
Kidding! Saturday was a free day at OMSI, and we went so that we could bathe ourselves in SCIENCE! for an afternoon. They had this nifty “Science on a Sphere” display, which cycled through a number of cool presentations about the planets. I also took this very cool one of Mars:
….and that’s what I got for today. Please be sure to join me next week when I will probably miss my self-imposed Friday deadline again.
I took a (very brief) road trip to Montana the other day, and discovered that just like in the Pacific Northwest they are still getting rain as late as July. I spent about twelve hours total there, which is a whole different story, but for now really I just wanted to show you a few pictures I took while driving home during the day.
And also to tell you this: Montana rest stops have some of the friendliest rodents around. We pulled over just prior to crossing back through Idaho to stretch our legs, and I noted what looked like thirty or more chipmunks or squirrels running riot all over the lawn near the restrooms. I wondered aloud whether it was mating season, but soon realized that these rodents had just keyed into a crucial secret of survival: if you hang out near where humans are passing by and are cute and fuzzy, humans will go crazy over you and shower you with food for your time.
I got a little closer to try and get a picture of one, and as I bent down with my phone to get a closer shot, the little bugger turned and ran right at me. I backed up a step or too, trying to keep my feet away from him while trying to keep my phone close enough for a decent shot. Thinking that surely I must be holding out some form of foodstuff for him, the little guy sat straight up and looked at me to let me know he was ready to receive his due.
Almost made me wish I had a cracker for him.
A few weekends back we got up extra early on Saturday and went down to the waterfront to check out the Portland Doggie Dash, an organized run for dogs and their owners.
A few of my photos turned out to be worth sharing. Suspiciously they all seem to be of corgis. Hmmm…
As you were.
I took this one at a tourist shop on Government Avenue in Victoria, BC. I believe the name of the store was literally “I Love Canada, Eh?”. No, I’m serious. Anyway, I liked the way this photo turned out.
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