So, how was your summer? Here are a few images from Saturday’s annual Picnic Music + Arts Festival, probably the premiere showcase for independent artisans and craftspeople in the city. Enjoy! Please visit the Picnic website (www.picnicportland.com) to learn more about the vendors whose work is featured here. You can also follow them on [...]
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Hmmm. It’s going to be a beautiful weekend. Where to start? Well, there’s Portland Flea-for-All, open Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5 pm. Here’s my photo essay on the sights of opening day. Saturday is the last day of the Wonderama steampunk exhibit at Victoria Mansion. (11 am – 4 pm, now through Saturday, [...]
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Last night a friend and took my son to see his second Portland Seadogs game of the season. (We also went to the home opener because my son had earned tickets through a Seadogs reading promotion, and he got to be part of the on-field flag crew during opening ceremonies, but I won’t brag to [...]
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“Would you like to see a bee being born?” With those intriguing words, owner Phil Gaven graciously welcomed me into The Honey Exchange, where I learned more about bees and honey in a short visit than I knew it was possible to know. Located in a beautiful converted center-hall cape on Stevens Avenue, The Honey [...]
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This has been exciting. If anyone doesn’t know, it’s been over 80 degrees here in Portland over the past few days. It’s supposed to get cooler over the weekend, but still what we’d all call “unseasonably warm”. Last night I went with my family to have a picnic on the Eastern Prom, and it was [...]
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My inside voice always subtitles Blanche & Mimi with the words “that great baby store” although it’s not really true — they certainly have a wide assortment of treasures that aren’t related to babies in the least. It’s just that, whenever I have a baby-shower related need (now that my own baby has grown tall [...]
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First and foremost, credit to margaaretkilljoy on flickr for the terrific photo of what I believe to be the playground on the Eastern Prom used in the header of this page. Please be sure to check out the rest of her photos on her Flickr feed or visit her website, Birds Before The Storm. Here’s [...]
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First and foremost, credit to maine_mike on Flickr for the beautiful image of the back cove at sunset used in the header of this page. Please be sure to check out the rest of his Maine photos on his Flickr feed. He also has a photoblog called Catch The Light. I also want to take [...]
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