Monthly Archives: March 2010
woodenshoes
The woodshoes are part of a long time family tradition of the Iversons in Woodburn, Oregon at the Tulip Farm. Kids and adults take turns stepping into these oversized woodshoes.
Stylish!
tulip farms make me smile
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Yesterday, we went to the Tulip Farm in Woodburn, Ore. At first I wasn’t too excited about it until Kari reminded me to bring the camera. Twist Twist. What we found out as we pulled up to an almost empty parking lot was that we came in through the back exit and didn’t have to pay the $10admission fee. Shhhhh…don’t tell anyone.
We walked along only a few acres of the 40acre farm. At first glance, I thought I would walk up and down every aisle to see the various tulips. But, I quickly became overwhelmed after only walking a few steps and clicking about 200photos. Take a look…
…and daffodils too!
These 9 photos are only a sampling of the 300plus photos I clicked. The tulips farm makes me smile. I can already tell you that this week’s daily photos are going to be chalk full of more pics I took at the farm.
I don’t hear any complaining now- do I?
tiger woods at powell’s books
I love the staff’s humor at Powell’s Book in Portland.
The other day, we were looking for college basketball books because we were having an argument about Duke’s mascot and U-NC’s mascot. I said Duke is the Blue Devils and UNC is the TarHeels. Kari didn’t believe me. She was goin’ for the Deacons. My outside voice said to her, “Ehhhhhh, wrong! Try again!” So we stumbled into Powell’s Books to settle the argument. Haha.. I won!
In the meantime, I saw this sign about Tiger Woods being a cheater but not with his golf game. Ha! Powell’s Books has tons of these funny promotional signs throughout the store. LOVE it!
blossoms…
….as I stood there trying to capture the perfect photo of these gorgeous blossoms a woman passed me on the sidewalk. I was so tired and delirious after a night of no sleep since the break in.. I turned to the woman and said, “aren’t they beautiful. They’re so soft you want to sleep with them…”
She stared at me.
Deer. In. The. Headlights.
…and kept walking.
hold please
….my daily photo posts will have to hold temporarily. I came home yesterday after work to find my house was broken into. The cats are fine, we are fine, the door was busted, and the fuckers took shit for street money. I’ve never felt so invaded and vulnerable in my life. I’m holding peace in my heart and trying to keep the anger at bay. What a lesson learned, eh?
In the meantime, while I take this weekend to decompress and mainly “re-group” – I’ll be out and about taking in the beautiful warm weather sunshine. The cherry blossoms at work against the perfect blue sky are amazingly brilliant!
Peace out.
Tri
springtime is nearing…
….in Portland. We’ve had a few cold and rainy weeks, but I’ve heard that the weather this weekend is going to be gorgeous – up in the high 60′s. That’s warm for us!!!! Portland Farmers Market opens on Saturday. Whoooop whoooop!!! I’ll take it!
pub krawl with a garden rake
Every year around this time, Kari and I somehow create our own pub crawl. Little did we know when we stepped out of the house and onto the Tri-Met Bus #4 that yesterday was the 2010 pub crawl day.
..And we ate and crawled, and drank and crawled, and crawled some more. Oh, and I discovered the juke box at North Bar. The juke box is full of awesome music from all over the Northwest, NYC, and even some down home bluegrass.
I have to say that the true highlight of the day was Kari’s rake. In the middle of our day, she decided that we needed to check out a True Value store on SE Hawthorne to see what we might need. We ended up buying a 24′” rake. I wanted to cut our day short and bring the rake home, but Kari insisted that we take it with us onthe crawl. Little did I know that the rake would actually become a great talking piece at each stop we made. Who knew?
art therapy
My photography has not been close to spectacular lately. I apologize for that. I’ve been quite busy at the place where I work and by the time the weekend comes around – I’m feelin’ a bit tired. I guess you can say that the camera has been a good art therapy outlet for me. It’s a way for me to express myself.
Oh — how I love Spring time! All the cherry blossoms, daffodils and tulips are blooming. I had to capture this photo of my favorite part of spring time blossoms which is when they dust the ground kind of like snow. Enjoy!
day dreaming…
There is nothing spectacular about these photos other than I day dream about some day — sooner than later BUYING my first home. I really like the look of these houses. Yep yep..hopefully someday I’ll buy a home like these.
Happy Friday! Whoooohooooo!
