Portrait of Portlandia

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
– John Ruskin

Touch down

Trainside Poetry: “I believe in the rule of opposites…”

The Good Mod

Coffeeshop Reads

Inside the Japanese Gardens

And then, the rain

One of the many reasons why Powell’s Books was top-notch

Sun peeks through

Relative to everywhere

I never thought a city could make me fall in love with the rain. I had always been ambivalent to its indecisiveness, halfway between a clear sky and a snowstorm. But the people of Portland welcome every drop. Instead of rushing inside when the leaking starts, they continue about their days, aptly pointing out that yes, “it’s just water.”