#signonpdx

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Today's Walking Photo: The sign’s been there for months, easily, and I’ve passed it many times without quite being moved to take its picture. Not that the message isn’t accurate and worthwhile, just…somehow it didn’t seem to rise to the level of photo-worthy. But hey, slap a bird skeleton up there and suddenly I’m on board. With its beak wide open like that, in my head I’m hearing it reel off the words of the sign in that classic scolding, singsongy parrot voice.

SQUAAAAAWK! OUTRAGE ISN’T ENOUGH! OUTRAGE ISN’T ENOUGH! SQUAAAAAAAAAWK!!!

Can you hear it too? (Sorry, Earl Blumenauer. You’re one of the good ones for sure.)

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Yesterday's Walking Photo: I’m just gonna go ahead and read this sign as…

NO NOTHIN’ NOT OVER THERE AND NOT OVER THERE NEITHER

Not accepting contradictory views at this time.

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Today's Walking Photo: Another jacketless, ridiculously springlike day (66º when I was out there), and I came across this timely sign with those breeze-blown sunlit daffodils functioning like flashing beacons to its message. (Click for the full-size image and to read the sign more easily.)

I’m proud to say I know someone who was involved in the design and production of that sign, and it occurs to me just now to wonder why I don’t own one yet. Gonna have to fix that. Interested? Here ya go.

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Today's Walking Photo: Tonight I made a video for you! Your cup runneth over! I played a gig that involved a great deal of walking – and even an episode of rather frenzied running! – due to parking further from the venue than I would’ve preferred. At the end of it all I found myself in the Alberta district of Portland and came face to face with this impressive neon sign. I’ll confess I don’t know exactly what’s going on in this animation, but the fact that it revolves around the roasting of coffee makes it automatically okay by me. Gee, those cars sound close, eh?

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Today's Walking Photo: Oh yes, dear me, such a narrow road! Thoughts and prayers to all of you narrow-private-road-impacted residents as you struggle to endure this trying situation. 🙄

(Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at the neighborhood association meeting when they ultimately arrived at the wonderfully elegant term “parking bays.”)

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Today's Walking Photo: This worked out well, because to be honest I was never very excited about those sewer dollars.

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Today's Walking Photo: Alternatively, drive like you deliver for Amazon and your dashboard is piled so high with detritus that you might mow down the mailbox of the next house on your route.

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Today's Walking Photo: You guys, I just…I got nothing here.

Please note that those are flashing lights along the top. They are lights that flash.

I saw no squirrels.

Interesting(ish) sidenote: Whatever this is, it’s located at the same household as the banana plant that was pictured in my very first Walking Photo nine years ago.