Portland Hodgepodge

Some of these or their lookalikes someone took the liberty of using on their blog, but i'm republishing a few here 'cause i like them and i want to show some of the scenes i've been seeing of late. Typically one would be able to see the span of the Morrison Bridge in this shot and probably some others in the background but for the thick, delicious fog:

Hawthorne Bridge. Go!

Hood (r) Tabor (l). Sorry about the highrise.

Die Festung Hohensalzburg??

(the real deal)

Note helicopter to right

Getting flown per Hubschrauber to pill hill. Love how the blade just floats there in photographs.

The only redeeming factor about that bridge is that it appears in Elizabethtown. Most everything else about it is atrocious (design, year, variety of transit options, i.e. one). It is kind of fun to ride over the top though. Building in center, Twelve West, has on-site wind generators and is purportedly a very energy efficient building. Haven't met Gus Van Sant yet so i can visit him, though i am rumored to have had a brief non-encounter with him at Laughing Planet Cafe on Belmont (i've heard it said he lives there?) but maybe i can get a tour some other way.