#laurelhurst park

[dorkvania]

Bookswap in Laurelhurst Park, followed by picnicing and reading on the nearby grass

[geese-in-the-sky]

Rainbow in black and white

Compare with the shot I got with my phone

[loneberry]

(Sound on.)

After we dutifully submitted our “peer-reviewed articles” to “high-impact journals” (academic life!) we paid a visit to the blossoming cherry tree. Halfway through the video you can hear the call of the varied thrush in the distance. Have you ever heard the shrill call of the varied thrush? It resounded in the whole park. Made us giggle too.

Down the road was a whole two blocks of blooming cherry trees! We stopped for over an hour to talk flower shop with strangers Jan and Jerry, two old lesbians who were out gardening in their yard. They’ve lived on the blossoming block for over 30 years. They said the cherry trees were planted in the 1950s and that there were plans to chop all the trees down a decade ago, but a single woman on the block protested and saved the trees. Bless the tree huggers of Portland Oregon!!!! Jan and Jerry gave me two catalogs of irises. One pointed to me and said with glee, “She knows her flowers!” I said my goal in life is to one day have a garden.

[johnhopkinsphotography]

Birdhouse

March 16, 2022

[ohsresearchlibrary]

Digging for baby catfish in Firwood Lake, Laurelhust Park - January 15, 1939. Portland- Parks, A-M, #1980.

[i-carrion-icarian]

Laurelhurst Park, Portland, 11-14-20

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