Fed by springs, rain and snow melt, the 611 foot high Multnomah Falls was still spectacular last September when I drove along the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Highway and stopped 30 miles east of Portland. An admitted acrophobic, I was content to forego the walk up to Benson Bridge, named after Portland businessman, Simon Benson, who gave the falls to the city, and viewed this natural wonder from the bottom.
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DrFumblefinger explores the architecture in “Downtown Casablanca”. Most were constructed in the period between WWI and WWII, and show art deco and art nouveau features combined with Moroccan/Moorish features.
A delicious lunch was capped by a pleasant young Berber girl pouring mint tea for us.
I was visiting a friend, and this was the view from their house. I could understand why they built their house facing this direction. I was taken by the beauty!
Samantha shares some street art pictures from her recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia.
A garden in South Wales is the topic of today’s post from ProfessorAbe
PortMoresby guides us to a community weekend market at a historic Northern California home (07/23/2014)
My discovery of the Kennet & Avon Canal was a revelation. I’d been confronted with a dilemma, the fact that
On a walk that had taken us past Assumption Cathedral, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, the French Embassy, into a Muslim
You’re a funny man, Rob.
The photo from the bottom gets the bridge in too ,so you picked a great location for the shot.