Isn't that great though? I was so pleased to finally get a shot that so clearly shows that pattern. It reminds me of the facades of buildings in the Croatian interior, still bullet-ridden a decade after the war ended.

Not an intersection, but a junction. Like several of Portland's bridges this one's a drawbridge with a span that raises when a large ship comes through - like one of those naval vessels at the Rose Festival. The pedestrian light is for traffic control during raising and lowering events.

Three things, and Ira Gershwin isn't one of them. It's getting late in the day, at the point at which I start having trouble hitting the keyboard accurately and end up with interesting choices from the spell checker. "Be Ira" was meant to be just "with". Likewise, then was supposed to be turn. So obviously I need to proofread morpheme carefully.

What I was really trying to say was intended as a joke, that spending 37 years with me would turn anyone's hair white. We've been marriedm37 years, and turn 38 in two days.

And, the photo is from 2007, from the start of our journal Narita to Fukuoka. That's essentially how her hair looked from the day she sat sown at our lunchtime bridge game one day until she neared retirement and quit masking the years.

See? Very clear. I'm surprised you didn't understand.

Oh, oh..”37 years be Ira me then anyone’s hair white”.. Is this actually supposed to say 37 years ago then…”, and.. suppose “anyone’s hair is now white”? I’m stumped, Scott.
Regarding white hair..there was a girl in my class in grade school where the entire family had white hair due to a strange ( to me) hereditary oddity.

At least your sentences are starting to make more sense, and the errors in grammar and spelling are fewer.. It’s another start, Scott :)

“Jet fuel only”..that’s a hoot..

Why is there a pedestrian crossing sign here? Is there an “intersection” to cross we cannot see, but you can? Wow.. Now we have an idea of what is “Scott-sight”😄

Count the dots and forget the bonks, Scott..

Well, wouldn't 37 years be Ira me then anyone's hair white?

Ricotta and mint cake? That’s a twist! :)

Agreed.. too many bonks on the head ( even with helmet) isn’t “right”..

I recognize the face, but not the hair! 🫣

Dodie lived in hope eternal that she would spot a Martin Pecheur (Kingfisher) somewhere along a French river. Despite signs stating that this bird lived there, we never saw even a flash of blue....until we came home and saw several at one of our favourite birding spots, even posing atop a riverside snag. Maybe your Sapsucker will pop out one of these days. You really never do know.

Was this the day that you talked about Aldous Huxley? That's the day my eyebrows raised and I thought, hmmmmm.

My daughter lived in this condo complex when she got married and the twins were born, we spent a lot of time at Via Delizia.