Funky pizza joint across the river from down town Portland Oregon, an anomaly from 1970 situated amongst trendy high end restaurants and boutiques in a former industrial area gone chic.

….I’ll be his and he’ll be mine
We’ll love until the end of time
And we’ll never be lonely anymore because we’re
goin’ to the Chapel of Love..
The Dixie Cups: … http://dai.ly/32G4KO

When the lights go down in the California town
people are in for the evening..
I jump into my car and I throw in my guitar
My heart beatin’ time with my breathin’..
Drivin’ over Kanan, singin’ to my soul
There’s people out there turnin’ music into gold …
excerpt from song ‘Gold’ by John Stewart

The Maryhill museum in Goldendale,Washington, an eclectic collection of art including Rodin sculptures and drawings. Set in the windy chasm of the Columbia River Gorge,it’s surrounded by gigantic, surreal white wind turbines,rangeland,ranches and cows. Way cool! http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/

Seen at the Maryhill museum in Goldendale,washington, an eclectic collection of art
including Rodin sculptures and drawings. The building itself is quite gorgeous in its setting in the windy chasm of the Columbia River Gorge.It’s surrounded by gigantic, surreal
white wind turbines,rangeland,ranches and cows. Way cool! I’ll post the Museum itself this week.
http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/

The right to cry out and wait a whole century.
The embers, the lone piano, the oil lamps
damaged by a dream.
The ambition in the spine.
Who will insist on tapping the window to show
how easy it is to delay the next hundred years? …
(excerpt) Poem Title .. ‘Adult’
(author) Ray Gonzalez

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward

“even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.”
— Leonard Cohen

Seen on  a recent trip to Vashon Island in Washington USA.