We spent a very short weekend in Portland last month (already, time flies). It was supposed to be a break from this crazy year of photography. I took and kept more images in the first 6 months of 2013 than I did in all 2012 (my highest photo count on record). So the trip to Portland was just to enjoy the city. The short answer is I fell in love with Portland! It’s a city where you don’t need a car (amazing in the US), public transportation is top notch, bike paths and bikes are everywhere. Did you know that 8% of portlanders commute to work by bike every day!
Full panorama of Portland
If you go up on some hills around Portland, you get a great view of the city and if the weather is nice, you can even see Mount Hood (50 miles away).
Mount Hood and Portland.
Panorama of Portland at night
During our weekend, we happened to get to a park where there was a Jazz festival, in another there was a beer tasting event with over 80 beers on tap and of course, there was the Saturday art market.
Cathedral Park, it’s actually the pillars of a bridge
I saw this picture a while back and I did more research about the Mossy Grotto falls. It was close enough, so I decided to try to find it. First of all, even with the exact GPS track I had, it’s a pretty tough access, secondly it’s better in Spring time when the fall is full of water, third, if you are going in Spring, it will be even harder to get to it because it’s going to be very slippery and very steep.
Mossy grotto fall or how bad do you want to find it.
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