Posts Tagged ‘Portland’
It seems autumn has snuck up on us! Though I listened to the breeze about a week ago and thought how it “sounded” autumnal…like the leaves were drier or something.
It hadn’t occurred to me that summer has ended. But it’s suddenly cooler. And leaves are turning color already!
I’m sure there’s scientific explanation for this but the sun lights up the forest differently too.
We happened by a pretty waterfall along the Columbia River Gorge, this isn’t the big famous one, but I kinda like it better.
The summer here has been very mild and comfortable for which I’m grateful for. But I’m happy for autumn, I have missed the grey sky and drizzles.
It’s lavender season! We are at the lavender farm.
Here’s a chicken roaming around the premise.
I love lavender, it’s probably my favorite flower. Luckily for me, Portland loves lavender and past few years we’ve enjoyed lavender in all sorts of things — our favorites being lavender honey milkshake from foodcart in downtown, and lavender marionberry jam from the market.
There were many different varieties. They even had beautiful ones with white flower which smelled very nice!
Portland weather isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but it is mine. This summer weather has been perfect for me having been mostly in the better half of 70′s — lots of sunny days, some cloudy days, and smattering of rainy days. There’s nothing more depressing to me than weather forecasts that predicts (even knowing that they are wrong all the time!) sunshine above 78 °F (that’s my upper threshold for acceptable heat index) for entire week.
Anyhow, the sky looked like it was going to rain, but it hadn’t the entire morning. Since it’s pointless to wait for rain to come, we went out to the park to see if it doesn’t rain.
I think that grey sky is very pretty.
Cloudy with chance of bubbles!
It’s not raining yet, but Immi is prepared! She is probably hoping for rain.
We had 2+ hours of fun outside before it did finally start drizzling!
Since we spent the Saturday adventuring to Astoria, we decided to pick up some fresh fruits and veggies at the Tigard Farmers market which happens on Sundays. And there was a very nice lady there who was giving away FREE (no agenda, no advertisement, not even a tip jar, only to make people happy!) corn on the cob. And it wasn’t just free, it was amazingly delicious! Life in Portland has been amusingly full of random encounters and happenings — it’s definitely one of many things we love about living here.
I had been meaning to go seek out some cupcake shops around Portland for over a year…and finally, our very first Cupcake adventure! We went to Cupcake Jones in Pearl district and got a dozen mini-cupcakes.(Weird lighting due to photo taken in the car while Todd ran into the store to pick up a few items!)
Here’s red velvet cupcake (which immi decided was her’s and ate TWO).
And this one is vanilla. I really liked this one!
These cupcakes were really really yummy (and pretty too!) — best cupcakes I have ever had…but that’s probably because we haven’t had much proper cupcakes 
I’m looking forward to sampling all the cupcake shops around town over time. Living in Portland, I have come to loose interest in finding “best” of anything since there are so many very very yummy things to eat and pretty places to go to that the deciding on which is “best” is just silly. I love all the variety that makes PDX so exciting!
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