By alienman on March 13, 2010
The food cart scene seems to have exploded, spawned and spread like spore in the four years that I’d been away. They are now clustered in groups in a frequent distribution throughout the city; you’re never far from blocks of street-side food vendors who are ready to serve some great dishes for dirt cheap. Yelp! [...]
Posted in Food, Photos of Oregon | Tagged food cart, portland |
By alienman on March 11, 2010
Admission was free for a day at the Portland Japanese Garden. The Japanese Garden is adjacent to the Rose Gardens on Washington Park, near downtown Portland, where you can get a good view of the city with snowy Mt. Hood right in the middle of your sights. I’ve been to the Rose Garden many times [...]
Posted in EOTD, Photos of Oregon | Tagged after dark, EOTD, FOTD, golden bear, japanese garden, OMSI, oregon, portland |
By alienman on October 18, 2009
As promised, here are photos from Friday’s trip to the pumpkin patch and apple orchards. The plan was to go to the pumpkin patch, take some pictures, pick out some pumpkins and, then, come home. We ended up doing so much more. Why the guilty expression? Has Alienman been a bad, bad pumpkin?
Posted in Photos of Oregon | Tagged apple, detering, eugene, orchard, oregon, pumpkin, pumpkin patch |
By alienman on October 12, 2009
The weather, apart from the brisk mornings, has been gorgeous all week. I crammed on Thursday with the usual promise that this would mean I’d have absolutely zero school-related work over the weekend. This method of self-motivation has worked quite nicely for me over the past several quarters. Having those weekends helped me to preserve [...]
Posted in Photos of Oregon | Tagged columbia river, columbia river gorge, crown point, eagle creek, hiking, latourelle fall, oregon, punchbowl fall, travel, vista house, waterfall |
By alienman on September 2, 2009
Let’s make one thing very clear. If you guys tell anyone I know that I fucking went to FaerieWorlds last July, I will hunt you down and glamour your memory out Southern Vampire style. As promised, I am finally and hesitantly posting this… EVIDENCE… that I actually paid to attend this disappointing event. You can [...]
Posted in anecdotes, Only in Eugene, Photos of Oregon | Tagged faerieworld, fairy, Only in Eugene |