3860 Westmoreland Park

 this is entry number 3,860

Westmoreland Park is the largest park of it’s kind in Portland; it’s not the largest park, which is Forest Park, in the West Hills, but Forest Park is the largest park of IT’S kind in the whole country.  Hiking and biking trails lead up and through the West Hills, covering hundred of acres.  The Oregon Zoo is up there – I used to work there, when I started this diary, and so is the International Rose Test Garden, the oldest public rose garden in the US.

Westmoreland Park is a kind of linear park; situated on McLouglin Blvd. from Crystal Springs down almost all the way to Tacoma Street, Westmoreland Park is BIG.  Crystal Springs forms a pond where ducks and geese hang out on the north end of the park, and the stream from that pond flows into Johnson Creek on the other side of Tacoma St. 

My view of the stream:

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And this is my friend K*’s view of the stream:

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the pond:

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A cat’s eye view of the pond that Crystal Springs makes:

(mmmmmrrrrowwwww tasty ducks!)

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Early in March, color returned after a winter’s absense:

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Today will be at or near 80 degrees – almost 40 degrees warmer than it was this March day…..

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K*’s camera was caught by color:

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Three thousand eight hundred and sixty posts written and posted; the majority Publicly posted, 428 Favs/Friends Only, and 124 Private entries, since 04-04-04.  More than ten thousand pictures posted.

All in all, I’ve had a good time here, and, in my not humble at all opinion, I have gotten to show off some of Oregon’s and the Pacific Northwest’s great beauty.  There are more than a few superlatives here.

Onwards.

Upwards, and Onwards.

 

 

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