Comments | madmoisellestar: spring, overjoy

madmoisellestar

spring, overjoy

Mar 30, 2013 12:40

Portland is so beautiful. Right now it's just impossible to ignore, spring is spectacular. The trees are flowering and starting to poke out gold-green leaves. The mountains are out, they keep surprising me because they're so pastel-close to the colors of the sky. Biking home from Shabbat Seder last night the air was soft and magnolia-cherry- ( Read more... )

starting over, a pretty painful & very imposing before, west coast, portland

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anonymous April 1 2013, 05:13:02 UTC

do not bike into traffic please. lovelier than prague?

madmoisellestar April 5 2013, 05:59:31 UTC

I am getting pretty good at the whole urban biking thing, actually. It is no longer scary all the time. And I have a helmet and lights and stuff.

Lovelier than Prague... no, probably not. Absence of a huge brooding castle on a hill is big points off. Plus there's the thousand-year age difference. Prague looks like it wandered whole out of a fairytale and caught a little infestation of modern life, Portland is definitely a new world city. It's older than I expected, though; I was worried I would miss the brick and stone of Baltimore, but Portland has a good bit of that. They do both share the misty watercolory river city feel.