The Portland Building

... .  The area was very quiet and peaceful in the evening and I took the opportunity to stroll the grassy park across from the building and take a few photos while the sun was setting.  After that, I stopped for a while to work on some photos on ...

... . Took a lot of security precautions as we went in, checked our bags, and made me take of my belt and was scanned. The building wasn't even in use today either. Then we walked around a lot saw some other sights and got some infant portions of seafood. ...

... up to the basketball pitches and just played about. Saturday was spent mostly in my department (performing arts) we had to clean the building and do an inventory of all the costumes and there was also more talks. Erika (head of performing ats) decided ...

Still very busy here in Portland. Still have not really seen the city. This is a picture of the skyline. The building in the front is the Rose Garden, where the Trailblazers play. The next picture is the Portland convention center. It is the one with the ...

... decisions just fell apart yesterday.  We intended to spend our time at Casa Bolivar, but they just notified us that the building will be undergoing repairs, so they cancelled our reservation.  We scrambled around to find an alternative and have ...

... , something like 10,000 to 20,000. They fly in near dusk and by dark all 20,000 birds have made their way into the building. So armed with no knowledge of the birds and their behavior, we ventured out into Portland one balmy week day evening to watch the ...

... in this area that we notice a group of old passenger rail cars outside a large new looking building.  Curious, we rode in, the building was fenced off but it looks like a Rail Museum,  The Oregon Rail Heritage Center   Out come the ...

... river in both directions, and could even go to the top level for an even higher lookout.  Not only that, but the building was just beautiful in it's design. Unfortunately, this building marked the end of our excursion on the Historic Columbia River ...

... a statue are two examples of how this manifests itseelf. Portlandia the statue was not popoluar neither was the building see was placed on, the Portland building. Wherear the bears and other wildlife cast in bronze were very popular and a hue and cry ...

... design of the building most closely resembles the Massachusetts Capitol since Charles Bulfinch was the architect of both but the building has been remodeled four times so the resemblance isn't that close now. I wandered around and took pictures.  ...