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Shipwreck

A half-sunken (sail?)boat rests near the east bank of the Willamette just north of Ross Island. It wasn’t there last week, but it looks like it’s been there forever. Maybe it sunk upstream and washed down to this point?

—orc Mon Aug 31 22:36:03 2026

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—orc Fri Aug 28 22:24:55 2026

an ex water tower

The water tank (used for fire control, but, alas, long empty when the building caught fire underneath it) that used to sit on top of the last surviving building in the Centennial Mills complex. It’s a bit worse for wear after being dropped seven stories (picking up a huge dent when – I think – it rotated and struck one of the building walls after the tower base was blown up to drop the tank) and then having the walls of the building pushed down onto it.

(At least this is what it looked like on Monday; I’m guessing that now it’s been cut into small pieces which are piled in a heap at a salvage facility on Columbia Blvd.)

—orc Thu Aug 27 21:46:34 2026

Fear of heights in one image

There’s a viewing platform at the top of Multnomah Falls that helpfully extends out over the edge of the cliff. Because I am stupid in this way, I inched up to the edge of the viewing platform, stretched my arm out as far as I could, and took a picture facing down the 165 meter tall upper falls.

And then my self preservation instinct kicked in and I BOLTED 50 meters up the path leading to this viewing platform, sat down, and shook in terror until Julie came ambling back from the observation platform. Brrr, there’s scary and then there’s a switch closing deep in my brain saying GET AWAY GET AWAY NOW!

(It’s a lot like my needlephobia, but, alas, there’s no such thing as an autoinjector for precipitous dropoffs.)

—orc Wed Aug 26 00:42:31 2026

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—orc Fri Aug 21 18:36:18 2026

trolley picture of the day

Two Tri-Met S70s cross over i205 on their approach to Gateway Transit Center at dusk tonight. I took this photo with my 7artisans f0.95 lens (open as wide as it could go) but it was still dark enough so everything was a bit blurry despite the IS circuitry in my camera.

—orc Fri Aug 14 23:02:58 2026

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—orc Fri Aug 14 22:46:03 2026

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—orc Fri Aug 7 23:30:44 2026