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On Memorial Day we went over to our friends Meghan and Yuki’s house for some requisite holiday bbq. They had been busy getting the yard in order: freshly planted vegetable beds, chickens in the coup, and fire pit ready for hot coals. I’ve never had chickens, but there are a lot of people [...]

It was just one of those evenings when the sun peeks through the trees to illuminate objects near the ground. These curbside grasses caught my eye and reminded me how beautiful simple things in the city can be.

Just up the street from us is Sunnyside Piazza, one of several intersection repair projects in Portland. The idea is you get neighbors together and paint the intersection to reclaim the street, slow traffic, and build community. Yesterday it was freshly painted.

Out on a midweek walk in early May on Powell Butte, 165 blocks East of downtown Portland, and we stopped off at this old orchard on the top of the hill.