This Space for Rent

The new replacement working Eng! heads towards the SPYellow Menace interchange to pick up three refrigerator cars for delivery to the warehouses in the Milwaukie industrial park. I know it was picking up the refrigerator cars because I (briefly) caught sight of them when we were walking home after the Captain Bogg & Salty concert at Sellwood Park....

An in-focus view of the "Brownwood" artificial wetland that's just east of Powell Butte along the Portland Traction trail. It's amazing how much better screw-mount lenses work after I sawed the extension tube off the m42 to k-mount adaptor I'm using. (And, as an aside, I must be getting into better shape. When I started riding my bicycle earlier this summer it would take me 1h45 to go the 19....

I ripped out a couple of blocks of the driveway earlier this summer, and because I didn't want to go out and buy sod I ended up doing a hair-transplant-style sodding where the blocks were — I walked around the house looking for where little clumps of grass were growing out between the concrete slabs, dug them up, and plugged them into the two square yards of dirt I'd dumped where the...

A pile of rocks alongside the Portland Traction mainline in Oaks Bottom.

Dorrie lounges around at the dining room table.

A stack of bricks at the eastern edge of the Columbia Brickworks property in Gresham, slowly being buried under a heap of blackberry weeds.

The few, the proud, the Dust Mite army.