Summer is just around the corner and it is time to start making vacation plans. Will you be traveling to Portland? If not, why not? Portland has many things to entice tourists including proximity to Oregon scenery such as Crater Lake. Robert has compiled for you below some excellent photos of one of his trips to Portland. Worth more than a thousand words, they tell their story better than we ever could.
Never before in the history of our State have Oregonians had so much to be congratulated upon. No State in the Union is receiving more attention. Her agricultural products, her mild climate, her great natural resources, invite the immigrant, the capitalist and the pleasure seeker, while the sound basis upon which rest her finances, and the fact that within two years her taxable property has increased more than ten millions of dollars, clearly indicate that the State, in the face of a general business depression throughout the land, is in no danger of deterioration of decay.
Mill End Park, the world’s smallest municipal park
Mt. Saint Helens from Portland
Mt. Hood over Portland
Crater Lake temperature is a balmy 38º
Crater Lake landscape
Crater Lake
I’m likin’ this lichen!
Photographing a dead tree on the rim of a volcano.
Crater Lake
Volcanic red soil on Wizard Island
Hiking up Garfield Peak
Oregon forest
Garfield Peak – one of three we scaled at Crater Lake.
I am NOT a chipmunk! I am a Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel!
Oregon clouds are closer than they appear.
At the Crater Lake Historic Lodge
Crater Lake historic lodge
Crater Lake tree
At Crater Lake
We climbed Mt. Scott (8,934 feet) for this view of Crater Lake. Note snow below. August 20, 2010.
Moon rising over Crater Lake, August 19, 2010.
The Phantom Ship, Crater Lake
Crater Lake as seen from Wizard Island
Crater Lake (with Wizard Island)
Lowell Covered Bridge, central Oregon
Lake Oswego sunset
“Portlandia.” Pretty scary, huh?
Keller Fountain, Portland
Keller Fountain, Portland
Chocolate with chile at “Cacao” in Portland
Portland architecture 3
Portland architecture 2
Portland architecture 1
Enigmatic octagonal structure in Aurora, Oregon.
“Scoop,” the ice cream lady (Portland homemade ice cream)
The Marionberry pie at the Bipartisan Café in Portland was listed in National Geographic Traveler Magazine as one of the country’s five best pies. It was indescribably sublime! • The crust is thin and light, and the filling is very fruity with little or no sugar added. Those are the marks of a great pie, in my opinion! By the way, the other pie was strawberry and rhubarb — it, too, was outstanding.
