So, at some point in time, I took a picture of a windmill that was sitting in a park in Oak Harbor. I don’t quite remember why there was a windmill in a park in Oak Harbor, but I thought it was time for a windmill. Because it was there. And because it’s a nice [...]
I have had a somewhat difficult time finding a vantage point where I can take a photo of all of Portland’s Union Station at one time. The placement of the rail lines and the bridge overpasses just make it difficult. On the other hand, there are so many nice parts of the building that I [...]
Oaks Amusement Park opened in Southeast Portland in 1905, two days before the Lewis & Clark Exposition World’s Fair. It served as a worthy competitor, and has lived on in various forms ever sense. The skating rink is not new, but I remember the same neon sign being atop the skating rink when I first [...]
If you were to take the pleasant walk around the Seawall at Vancouver’s Stanley Park, you will eventually come upon this piece of art sitting a short distance into the water. Placed in 1972, someone was looking for a statue similar to Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue for the park, but could not arrange to acquire [...]
The Smith Tower in Downtown Seattle, built in 1914, was the tallest building West of the Mississippi River from the time it was built until 1931. For nearly the last century, the 38-story structure has been a landmark in the Seattle skyline. Yes, I still miss the flying fish that appeared at it’s top when [...]
I have been going there since I was a youngster, but I never lose my fascination for the place. Where, you ask? Well, the Ballard locks it is, more formally known as the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. In particular, (other than the one working boat shown) there is mostly recreational boats out on sunny Sundays [...]
Although it was built over 100 years ago in 1906, the King Street Station remains a major transportation hub in the Seattle area today. Three Amtrak routes serve the station with many trains every day, while even more of Sound Transit’s Sounder trains arrive and leave in both directions. There are also bus and light [...]
The Conde B. McCullough Memorial Bridge, commonly known as the Coos Bay Bridge, crosses the 1700 feet across the mouth of Coos Bay. The bridge, built in 1936, takes US Highway 101 down the Oregon Coast into North Bend on the way to the town of Coos Bay. This is one of many impressive bridges [...]
Union Station in Portland is known for a lot of things. It is a major transportation center, it is a historic building, and it lets you reminisce about the past romance our nation had with train travel. Going in is like looking at what the airport might have looked like 100 years ago. The neon [...]
In the continuing search for interesting things in and around Cascadia, I saw one this week that I just had to stop for. On the grounds of the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, there was this Boeing 747 (at least, I think that’s what that is) sitting upon a partially finished building. It [...]
