Great thought.

This is from Lois Ehlert's The Scraps Book and I love it.  I'm going to post it over my desk.  How many different eggs in the nest does every person have?

Celebrate!

Finished second draft!

Did a shot to celebrate.

Then folded all the laundry I'd been ignoring while working on said draft.

And so it goes.

Trimet employs white-out to eliminate racist statement. Probably not ironically.

"No Blacks." Someone had graffitied, in answer to the statement, "What makes this place great."

Then the word "no" was covered in white-out.

I don't really know if it was a Trimet employee who used the whiteout, or a random passerby with whiteout in their backpack.  Either way, I snickered.

Tabloid format and recipes? No go!

Here I am on the train, reading my paper.

And here I am reading the recipe for Greek-Style Souffleed Omelet.

And here I am having to turn and read over the fold.

In the old, pre-tabloid days, printing a recipe over the fold was no big deal because you could just open the paper and cut the recipe, right over the fold.  But now two parts of the recipe are on two different pieces of the newspaper. Which means taping things together.  Grrr.

Unique apartments.

These are near my house and I love them both.  I worry that they will be torn down for something fancier, so thought I would snap a few pictures just in case.

Here's the street side of this complex.  I love the swinging modern silhouette of the building and the fact that the garages are underneath, with the apartments hanging over.  Some of the garage doors still work, and some are permanently sealed shut.

Front entrance.  There is a pretty shrubbery outside of every door and a garden area on the other side of the parking lot.  I've never seen inside these units, but I imagine they are all one-bedroom jobbers.

This fourplex is right next door.  I like how it looks like it has been added onto over the years.  There's even a random bay-type window in one unit.  And the corners of the building have art deco glass.  A few of these units have been vacant for some time, and it's a hot rental market here, so this is building I'm most worried about.

Postcards from Germany, Hawaii & Indonesia

This is a picture of the Herkules Monument which is a town landmark.

Here's one from Hawaii, picked out by my co-worker's daughter especially for me.  She knows my Channing Tatum/hunky men preference.

This is from Ines, who included a quote from the Little Prince. "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

The Oregonian goes tabloid.

Here it is folks!  Transformed indeed.

You still have to pull things apart into sections, but now the fold is only on the left, not down the middle of the paper.