beard too big for soup!

attack my piano while

This is something happy. I hope it makes you happy to be alive.
It does that for me.
(At least for 2 minutes…)

jk/bff

I have always wanted to learn how to do flashlight art, but actually never once (until recently) realized I already could. My camera has a long shutter time setting which I had no idea how to use until tonight, really. Flashlight art is really fun! Watch out, though, when running around in pitch dark with a flashlight not pointed at where you’re going!

Tonight, I ventured into Forest Park to roam around and photograph the trees, and hopefully find some slugs. Forest Park has huge slugs, if you’re able to find any. I’d say night, and morning would be the best times to do so. Forest Park, according to wikipedia, “covers more than 5,100 acres (21 km²) of mostly second-growth forest with a few patches of old growth.”

It is such a beautiful place to be.

I managed to find some amazingly huge and active slugs on my way back down the trail. I shot a video of one, and I will post it when it finishes uploading on Vimeo. There is a video of a very wonderful black and brown slug crawling around, as well as a video of plants dancing in the wind. I will also post a clip of a recording of the birds singing.

On the way back, there is a wonderful view of the Washington view of North Portland, including the St. John’s Bridge.

Thanks for looking.

This cemetary is very old. It is called the Historic Columbian Cemetery. My roommate, Justin, told me about it a couple of weeks ago, so I decided to go and take some pictures of it. It’s a very spooky place. The whole time I was there (alone), I had to keep looking over my shoulder because I kept hearing footsteps and movement behind me. Also, the trees were groaning at me constantly. The lighting was perfect, because it was dusk, but my camera ran out of batteries right away, so some of these pictures are with my iPhone, so they don’t look as good.

The cemetery has a committee who plans to print out the obituaries and life stories of everyone who was buried there. I think the most recent death in the cemetery was around 1975, but almost all of the rest died in the 1800’s. The cemetery is hidden just off North Columbia Blvd. in North Portland, and it is both romantic, and seemingly haunted. I was very spooked while there. Maybe it was because someone pulled up in a car while I was completely boxed in between a freeway and two old buildings totally fenced in. My sister would love this place!

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