Beautiful Things We Saw On Neighborhood Walks

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon May 04, 2020 4:10 am

that cactus is BONKERS

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Mon May 04, 2020 8:23 am

That is an agave, not a cactus. I say with peace and love!

Post by **joni** » Mon May 04, 2020 8:53 am

AGAVE IS LIFE

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Mon May 04, 2020 9:16 am

We rode by the agave yesterday as well. It's become a Portland phenomenon, hard to social distance around it TBH.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon May 04, 2020 10:27 am

When an agave blooms like this, death is imminent!

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon May 04, 2020 12:52 pm

I love the beautiful triumphant agave in its dying

Abe · Post by **Abe** » Mon May 04, 2020 6:24 pm

Yes. It is crowded at all hours. I've had to get creative for my runs and sanity strolls as I am between it and Holgate. The residents of Loretta's first cousin down the street (both the SRO and 1 bedroom people) are not distancing at all and that whole end of my block is crowded during the day.

Abe · Post by **Abe** » Wed May 06, 2020 1:10 pm

https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2020/ ... ismay.html

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed May 06, 2020 1:27 pm

A person who was does sewing things online also posted a picture of this guy AND a picture she PAINTED of it, including onlookers. Maybe one of them was YOU!

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Mon May 11, 2020 12:30 pm

I saw this plump mouse munching a seed in the flowers at the lake yesterday. It didn’t scurry away for some reason, either oblivious, blind, ill, or overconfident. I almost stepped on it before I noticed.

willowowow · Post by **willowowow** » Mon May 11, 2020 12:34 pm

He's so nice!

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Mon May 11, 2020 12:40 pm

*plump*

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Mon May 11, 2020 6:03 pm

so many wet irises today <3

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue May 12, 2020 10:18 am

After a gorgeous sunset drive in the heights, I rounded a curve and saw three teenage girls, each dressed in black, roller skating/blading in the middle of the street.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue May 12, 2020 10:45 am

I want to hear more about "the heights"!!!

Evan.V.N.S.J. · Post by **Evan.V.N.S.J.** » Sun May 17, 2020 1:44 pm

I saw a bunch of canada geese with their lil babies down by the river today on a nice walk, I tried to get a picture but the babies it turns out are very well camouflaged among dry grass

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon May 18, 2020 6:45 pm

We went on our first hike in a long-ass while (trails reopened, plus there was a good and unexpected rain this AM which we figured would weed out more casual hikers). I couldn’t breathe the mountain air in deep enough! When it rains in LA the hills get this intoxicating sagey petrichor smell. The monkey flowers and buckwheat were in bloom and the sky was clear and fluffy with cloud. Hawks doing breezeplay. Twinkling raindrops in the brush. Saw two lizards. Non-native wild mustard was in flower so the hills were ablaze with yellow.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue May 19, 2020 5:07 am

This sounds so deeply good.

rcnederveld · Post by **rcnederveld** » Tue May 19, 2020 6:56 pm

On our evening dog walk I was walking with shame for forgetting my mask when SUDDENLY in the yard I was approaching I saw a 2' weed being pulled under the very see-through metal fence with no creature in sight! Of course it was a gopher but for about a second my mind didn't know and that was the highlight of my day.

jjstratford · Post by **jjstratford** » Fri May 22, 2020 4:38 pm

OK technically this might not belong here .....because I was driving....

The other night I was driving home on the 5 freeway and in front of me was a car full of Armenian dudes who were leaning out of the windows. In their hands were big bunches of red balloons.
I immediately thought, "whoa their car looks like the CoronaVirus!" Suddenly one of them
started popping the balloons with a needle and they were all cheering and laughing and swerving!
I changed lanes and slowed down so I could still see the show but then they stopped suddenly on the freeway and almost got into a crash. It went from weird and funny to scary real quick. But also...a beautiful thing?

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Fri May 22, 2020 9:26 pm

this scene…

tim · Post by **tim** » Wed May 27, 2020 7:38 am

saw these great birds on a walk near the LaGuardia airport

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Fri May 29, 2020 11:38 am

There was a Brussels critical mass this evening. The ring around the center of the city is about 5 miles and kinda vaguely heart-shaped. The idea was for everyone to start biking the ring in either direction at 6:00 pm and slowly build up a bunch of people drawing a heart around Brussels on their bikes. There were a lot of bikes!

Pedestrians/cyclists have priority in the whole center starting last week. Cars are only allowed to go 12.5 mph and have to let bikes or pedestrians just be in front of them. All traffic lights are blinking yellow lights. After biking around the ring, we went zig-zagging through the center to enjoy getting to be wherever we want in the streets. It was great to be part of a thing with other human people.

Also today was the first day that the number of deaths in Belgium was on par with that they are on a normal pre-covid day! Huzzah!

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Fri May 29, 2020 11:49 am

HOORAY FOR NORMAL DEATH RATES!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue Jun 02, 2020 10:22 am

Regular_Yaris · Post by **Regular_Yaris** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:56 pm

Saw some cool clouds the other day:

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:12 pm

I like them very much

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:39 pm

Still shocked when I see trees in Texas. Every time. I think cause growing up in England I thought it was a place with only cacti, rock, and sand.

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 8:33 pm

still spending evenings lurking around Sunnyside Gardens Historic District and found this peaceful little in-between zone…

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Abe · Post by **Abe** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:14 pm

Spotted on my run this morning.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Aug 24, 2020 2:10 pm

Computer, enhance!

Anyone else noticing that six+ months of quar has changed the way your neighborhood looks?

Lots more victory gardens, more porch seats, more front yard kiddie pools (& in my neighborhood anyway) lots more driveway entrepreneurship: walk-up pupusa and taco stands, hella yard sales, and one lady a few blocks over has a whole front-yard succulent/plant retail empire growing, with tables and tables of seedlings and mini-cacti for sale. I like it.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:39 am

This makes me miss front yards.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:52 pm

a chair with three legs, standing/leaning against a signpost

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 2:35 am

Did you sit on it? Does it sit? Does this thing do sitting?

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:22 am

It didn't look sit-able, more like gently balanced and upright as a performance of its former chairness.

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:39 pm

feel like I haven't checked into this thread for a while. early fall photo dump!

pt. 1

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infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Sat Oct 10, 2020 8:40 pm

pt. 2

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m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:29 am

Thank you for this inspiring NY dump!

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:00 am

these make ny look SO nice

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Sun Oct 11, 2020 2:18 pm

I'm so happy for Fall.

marijke · Post by **marijke** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:24 am

Oooh, love a mimosa tree... the prettiest mess.

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:55 am

Fall is a great time cause it means sleeping with the window open while it's raining which is one of the nicest things

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 8:17 am

Also it’s cold enough that cats suddenly love to snuggle at night

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:31 am

Today I thought I saw a man walking a white goose on a leash but it was just a little dog with a long white tail half hidden by a tree.

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:13 pm

today I saw one of my favorite things to see on a neighborhood walk: a dog carrying its own leash

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 7:21 am

Yeah, that's the good shit right there.

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:30 am

Two dog stories (you may have heard them before, sorry):

1) the time a wiener dog and her wiener puppy were running through traffic on a main road and I tried to help. I clicked my hazards, pulled over safely, and went onto the sidewalk to lure them with french fries. The puppy ran right up to me but the mom continued to run around the street. Pup safely engaged, I tried to win her over again, and she ran up to me, barked fiercely, then ran over to another nearby house and barked at a dog that was looking out of a window!! It was so chaotic and goofy. Their people arrived in a car and took them right then!?

2) Turning onto W Burnside, I saw a lady carrying a big Pizza Schmizza box and talking on the cell phone WHILE holding her dog on a leash. Obviously this couldn't last. She got to the corner and as if in slow motion, I saw the pizza slide out of the box and the big dog lunge forward, inhaling half of it before it hit the pavement!!

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:32 am

I can't believe I'm doing this, but:

The other night I dreamed I saw two people and two dogs rolling down the street on a longboard (the dogs were both standing up so everyone fit).

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:06 am

Oh my god, this should go in the dreams thread, but the other night I dreamt that I was Homer Simpson and was riding on a jet-fueled hoverboard thing through a lush forest!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:56 pm

Oh My God you guys and your dream long(hover) boards! Lucky!

Pizza Schmizza??!