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  Sorry B.C. but the jet stream is sending all the bad weather north of us and letting the sun shine down on Portland. I drove out into the Columbia Gorge the other day, it was so nice.  I waited till later in the day though, because it's been icy out there and ya gotta…

  I use Photobucket to store and link my pictures, a paid account because I have over 10,000 pictures there.  I exceeded the free account's number of pictures you could have, and decided then that I wanted the pictures to stay up, and that $25 a year was a pretty good expense to do that...

I bought a new car in 2008, pretty much the first time I had ever done that by myself. I really like the Dodge Caliber.  We rented one in 2007 and I drove it 3100 miles in the week we had it, so, the next year, when I knew I wanted a new car, I…

  The day after I got my black Caliber, I drove out to the Painted Hills unit of The John Day Fossil Beds, in central Oregon:   532 miles round trip.  These are hills of volcanic ash, and are very colorful - but it was raining the day we went, and totally changes the place's…

 Multnomah Falls is the Crown Jewel of the Columbia Gorge. 20 minutes from PDX, in case you're curious.        *****                          

         

 The Pacific and the Columbia.          

 Mt. Tabor is one of the 26 volcanic cones in the Portland metro area.  3 reservoirs for drinking water, drawn from Bull Run, supply the east side of the city.      

 The definition of BLUE          

 The second highest year-round waterfall in the USA. Multnomah Falls: