Mt. Tabor in January

 Today’s epedition was to Mt. Tabor, a volcanic cone/city park in the city of Portland.  There are three reservoirs for the city water system here; all of them were lower than I’ve seen before and one was nearly empty.  There are good views of Downtown Portland here – views that my camera does not catch as well as my eyes did:

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The camera did catch the reservoirs very well:

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This is downtown Portland, Oregon.

The reddish building downtown is the COIN Center Tower*.  The tall white building near it is the Wells Fargo Tower.

*NEVER park in the garage under the building – it is VERY TIGHT.  I backed into a cement post here in my car – a week before my first car payment was due.  On the one hand, I did find out that a lot of the back of my car is flexible plastic and just moves out of the way, but on the other, I had to buy some Dodge touch-up paint to cover the metal exposed by the paint flaking off above that plastic.

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The structure at the far end of the reservoir is the pump house.  I have never seen this reservoir filled, but this is much lower than I have seen before.

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This is the smallest of the three reservoirs.

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This is the lower reservoir.  Harrison St. is just south of this body of water, and there are access points to this park from there as well as streets all around the volcanic knob.

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There are 119 pictures to post, out of the 160 I took.  There are not 41 bad pictures, just 41 I don’t need to use here.

Photobucket now gives me the option of using Thumbnail Galleries – I wll try that and see how it works out.

Stay tuned.

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One more:

Yes.  It was COLD.

 

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