Minestrone Soup

Cold days call for hot soup.

Lemon Cake...w/Carrot Cake in the Bkgrd

Oh, this lemon cake was sooo good. Light, fluffy, lemony...Ummm. The carrot cake: not so good.

Multnomah Tunnel

The tunnel leading from the highway to Multnomah Falls in Oregon was especially intriguing as I left the falls last month....and here's some of the beautiful surrounding greenery dusted in snow...

Dreamscape vs. Realscape

The Dreamscape...-Versus-
The Realscape...
The top photo was taken from a moving vehicle off of I-5 coming into Portland, OR. The bottom photo was from an excursion to the WSU Vancouver campus during one of the snow days. Both were taken before Christmas in December 2008.

In this case, I'd have to say I like my "dreamscape" better than the more realistic "realscape." Sometimes I get tired of the same 'ole same 'ole. It revives me to create something different.

Multnomah Falls, Partially Frozen

Footage of Multnomah Falls in Oregon on December 17, 2008 in the midst of an unusual amount of snow. Thanks to Jon for this nice video.

And now for some photos...

So, uh...yeah...
When you're standing in front of a tourist destination such as Multnomah Falls and you ask a bystander to take a picture of you, you'd expect they'd obviously know to include the tourist attraction in the background, right?

Wrong.
Apparently, we expected too much of the three gentlemen--all friends--hovering around the Falls, each of them with a camera (they even had tripods so it wasn't just casual shooting...) We figured we were in good hands...but no. This is what we got:
Oh yeah. That's nice. A picture of us in front of some greenery. Thanks.
Frankly, we were flabbergasted. How very odd. We figured we could do better than that and hence ended up with this:
And then one of me flying solo: