I'm sitting here in my beloved neighborhood bar, Tiga. Thinking about how much beer one city could possibly produce. Last I heard we were running neck and neck with Cologne for the "most breweries within city limits in the world" award. Yep, some cities have world-class museums. Some have world-class corporate power (holding nose). Some have monumental cityscapes reaching in vain for the sky. All of our "indicators" seem to be pointing in a different direction. May I raise a beer to that?

Anyways, I've been taking advantage of the recent spell of dry weather by avoiding the indoors as much as possible.






^^^ see Feb 12 post for historic context

'Nuff said.

On Sunday, I took advantage of the light and the first 50 degree day since early November (ouch) to ride around sans winter coat. I ended up poking around Harriet Tubman Elementary. It sits right on the bluffs in inner northeast, enjoying the nearby ambience of I-5 as it cuts through one of the oldest neighborhoods in Portland, long ago dismembered by the freeway builders and the urban planning disaster known as the "Rose Quarter".

In the words of Duran Duran: "Hold back the rain!"