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By Samuel John Klein of Portland, Oregon - An Independent Graphic Designer living in a city that was built upon an ancient Unicorn burial ground.
The Church At Second And A
2024-03-28 05:00
4109The subtraction of the century-old Eugene Field School building from the landscape of city-center Silverton has opened up sight lines that young me never even comprehended existed.If you… Read More
The Hitching Post At Water And Park
2024-03-28 04:44
4108This is a thing that exists in Silverton that refuses to explain itself.Located at the northeast corner of Water and Park streets, on the north edge of downtown, it keeps its own counsel… Read More
Oregon Back Road In The Cascade Foothills
2024-03-27 04:57
4107The past few pictures were from within Silverton. This was part of the road on the way there. State Hwy 211 is a highway that runs from Estacada to Molalla. As soon as it leaves Est… Read More
Water Looking North From Main
2024-03-26 05:13
4106A look at Water Street, downtown Silverton, looking north from Main.History still lives in small Oregon towns and, maybe I'm biased, but more so in Silverton than other Valley cities. Al… Read More
Curly's Legacy Cooler
2024-03-25 05:01
4105On the west side of South Water Street there's a charming little coffee dive (and I mean that in the most affectionate way) called the Silverton Coffee Station. It occupies what was… Read More
Silverton's Small God
2024-03-24 08:03
4104This was seen on the property of the Silverton Coffee Company, on South Water at Lewis:And this, on the doorstep of the Palace Theatre, which I have just rhapsodized about:Know ye of Bob… Read More
The Palace Theatre, Silverton, At Dusk
2024-03-24 07:17
4103The gem of town shines out as it once did, brilliantly at dusk, at Oak and Water Streets in downtown Silverton, Oregon, the kind of theater that's still the kind of place were you can wa… Read More
Falls Mural On Main St, Silverton
2024-03-24 06:59
4102Another Silverton mural, of which I'll have a few in the next several articles, which is found on the north side of East Main Street between the end of the bridge over Silver Creek and t… Read More
2024-01-21 10:55
4101Spotted on an Oregon Art Beat viewed a week or so ago, the artist Hiroko Cannon, a resident of Pendleton, who does watercolor works of wildlife that put Audubon to shame, if for no other… Read More
Evans Valley Road, East Of Silverton
2024-01-21 08:06
4100Please enjoy the following relatable, pastoral, colorful-and-brimming-with-life-and-all-the-good-feels, no-agenda, non-political, friendly view of a bit of Marion County countryside just… Read More
Fujii Farms Ramping Up For The Season
2023-05-07 05:58
4098This is a thing I also see on my commute. At one time, of course, there were farms all along the long streets east of Portland and going through the area we once commonly (thought inac… Read More
Stark Stuck Truck
2023-05-05 04:56
4096I'm quite frankly surprised this doesn't happen more often.The Stark Street Bridge over the Sandy River is a narrow truss. The modern breed of large consumer pickup feels like they chall… Read More
Midland Library, 3 May 2023 (With Closeups)
2023-05-05 04:45
4095The prep of the site seems to continue at a steady pace though not at breakneck speed. Not only has the interior been gutted but also parts are beginning to disappear from the outside.He… Read More
Midland Library, 26 April 2023
2023-04-27 04:52
4094The Midland-of-the-week photo series continues, with no obvious change from last week, though I think the old glass and steel from the main entry is now completely gone.You can see strai… Read More
Midland Library, 20 Apr 2023
2023-04-22 09:24
4093Herewith the first of a continuing series of snapshots of the evolution of the Midland Branch of the Multnomah County Library from what was into what will be.In December, 2022, the Might… Read More
Evening Rush Hour, Government Camp, Oregon
2023-02-14 06:14
4089Government Camp is a small unincorporated town at the foot of the road that goes up to Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood. It is also located immediately aside another major ski resort, Mt H… Read More
Gresham: Rare Wit
2023-02-14 06:01
4088The proprietor (or manager, or whatever) of a auto shop out at 202nd and SE Burnside has something to say about that:Well, he's no Blue Sign Guy, but I respect the effort.  Read More
Today We Go Place Part 3: Timberline Lodge
2023-02-12 08:36
4085This was our ultimate goal, but we did not know this starting out. It just kind of happened.Timberline Lodge is not only a popular tourist destination, it's part of history; it was one o… Read More
Today We Go Place: Jonsrud Viewpoint
2023-02-12 08:19
4083There are certain places that any Oregon photographer, be they amateur or professional, must have in their portfolio, I think. Place like South Falls in Silver Falls State Park, or the w… Read More
Dreamland East Of 257th On Stark
2023-02-11 09:29
4082In the intervening time since the last times I regularly posted, I've changed places of employ. I used to work near the Portland International Airport; now I work in an area called Sprin… Read More
The Return Of SUSPISH! To Stark Street
2023-02-11 09:18
4081We have, out here in 122nd Land, the occasional recurring cartoon character in the form of graffiti.Today, one came back. He's SUSPISH, and he's on the back of a building on the south si… Read More
The Most Absurd Book Currently Existing
2022-12-13 06:11
4079Well, on a certain level, it is a logic puzzle and can be approached as such, but Wordle is such a thing of the 'Web that it just seems ... well, a paper book of Wordle problems is just… Read More
A Riot Of Color
2022-12-13 06:08
4078One side of the watercolors aisle at I've Been Framed on SE Foster. It is a place that just makes me feel good Read More
Where Do You Get The Perfect Thingy?
2022-12-13 06:06
4077Why, at I've Been Framed Art Supply Center, which is perfect in every damned way, of course. This is what it looks like:What it is is a 3-D Printed watercolor pan insert for your retired… Read More
Hamilton In SE Portland
2022-12-13 06:00
4076Portland gets pretty silly about its sign-toppers, and sometimes artistic and thoughtful, but I've never seen a unique one, and not like this one only on a certain intersection of SE 62n… Read More
A Mural On SE Water Avenue
2022-10-06 04:55
4075There is a place at 1320 SE Water Avenue called "Tipsee and Spice", which is a bakery of a sort, and on the side facing Water Avenue, they have this mural:I do recognize RGB: I do not, I… Read More
A View Of Oaks Amusement Park
2022-10-01 08:38
4073We have our very own old-school amusement park here in Portland, on the river, in the southeast part of town; The Oaks. Oaks Amusement Park. This is the view from the Sellwood… Read More
Houses With A View Along Sellwood Blvd
2022-10-01 07:55
4072There are a number of southeast-Portlanders who won enough in the lottery of life to afford addresses along SE Sellwood Boulevard. They undoubtedly have views I'd conceivably kill f… Read More
The Rink At Oaks Park
2022-09-27 05:11
4070The bluff above Oaks Bottom afforded us this view, too.There you see the building that contains the famous Oaks Park Roller Rink, still all-skatin' it for going on for nearly 118 years… Read More
A Swing Sets In Sellwood-Moreland
2022-09-27 04:55
4068Along SE Sellwood Boulevard, right about where SE Flavel Street and 11th Avenue intersect it, there's a child's swing.The old-fashioned type. Two ropes and a board. The kind that would s… Read More
NE Broadway Near The Rose Quarter, Nov 2017
2022-09-18 06:35
4067I'm not quite sure why we were traveling west on NE Broadway on a November day in 2017, but we were, and the composition spoke to me (as long shots down streets tend to do).The red light… Read More
Yoshida's Haven At The Other End Of Stark
2022-09-14 04:18
4065Oblique Coffee is at the 'lower' end of Stark Street. This is at the bitter end of the road.From the river in the middle of Portland to the end that crosses Sandy in nearly sixteen miles… Read More
More Oblique Art On Stark
2022-09-13 04:29
4064The A-Frame sign in front of Oblique Coffee is delightful enough it deserves its own entry. It totally echoes the decor ethic of the shop.Constructed of doors and paint and creativity an… Read More
Oblique Art On Stark
2022-09-13 04:23
4063I do not know if anyone at Oblique Coffee was responsible for nailing this to the 'phone pole outside their shop, but it is an apt depiction of what some days feel like without the… Read More
Just A Bit Of SE Stark Near 30th
2022-09-12 04:08
4062No agenda here, no message, no intended subtext.Just an angle on SE Stark St from just east of SE 30th Avenue up to about 28th (that's where that little crest is). It's a particularly co… Read More
Oblique Coffee Co.
2022-09-12 03:08
4061There's a lovely small-batch coffee roaster at SE 30th Place and Stark Street, across the street from Laurelhurst Village care center, a place that, at one time, had been known as Mount… Read More
Mulugeta Seraw
2022-09-12 02:31
4060In 1988, an Ethiopian immigrant was murdered in inner southeast Portland. But I get ahead of myself.On a number of street blades on corners near SE 28th and Stark, and a little nort… Read More
An Old Motorcoach Decays In SE Portland
2022-09-09 04:04
4059Saw this old workhorse parked - more or less permanently it looks - on SE 78th Avenue near Taylor Street.The plates were Florida. Just another Florida Man seeking shelter in the Pac… Read More
Old Restroom/Shelter, Mount Tabor Park
2022-09-09 04:02
4058Mount Tabor is a magical place. An extinct volcano of the Boring Volcanic Field*, it tops out at scarcely 650 in elevation and only 400 feet of prominence, but it's just so gorgeous and… Read More
The Reason I Like This Hawthorne Address
2022-09-08 04:32
4057This is charming, no? It's the transom of The Meadow, a shop next to Powell's and The Fresh Pot that sells chocolate, gourmet salts, bitters, and other trendy comestible impedimenta, and… Read More
The Eternal Bagdad Theater
2022-09-08 04:25
4056First run, second run, brewpub, back to first run ... it doesn't matter.The Bagdad will always, always, be the Bagdad: Dated Orientalist decor and all.I remember, a looong time ago, when… Read More
Hawthorne Blvd, Sept 2022
2022-09-07 03:47
4055There's been so much change (and so much money rushing in) but somehow it still looks and feels the same.Mostly, anyway.  Read More
A Slice Of SE Portland Gingerbread
2022-09-07 02:56
4054While we were near the Hawthorne Powell's Books on Labor Day, we saw this little confection:The architectural style, says my wife, is 'gingerbread'. It's painted up like a delightful bit… Read More
Wy'east From Tabor, In September Mode
2022-09-06 06:08
4053Happy Labor Day 2022 from the north east slope of Mount Tabor, where the visage presented by Wy'east looked thusly:The peak is sans snowcover, which reminds us of last year in August whe… Read More
Some Flowers From A PBN
2022-09-05 08:56
4052A flower break, as we take an existential breath from what we've just been through and in anticipation of what may or may not come Read More
Dramatic Clouds, October Morning
2022-09-04 08:05
4051Another one from the files: One October morning six years ago there were low clouds partially obscuring Wy'east from view and the sun was illuminating it dramatically Read More
A Mushroom In Midland
2022-09-01 02:59
4050Exploring the small and mundane but somehow still wondrous, earlier this year, when it was cooler and moister (do you remember, nah, neither do we) there were several of these mycologica… Read More
The View From Twelve Mile Hill
2022-08-31 04:36
4049One of the changes I've hinted at is a change that came out of nowhere: the job I'd held for thirty years dissolved out from under me.At least I didn't get fired, hey? And I wasn't kicke… Read More
The Progress On Summertime Farm
2021-12-27 11:46
4047The current PBN project, Summertime Farm, heads toward completion. I am, evidently, going to fill in the barn last of all.The barn is full of detailed little spaces that will require muc… Read More
A History-laden Bookmark
2021-12-27 11:43
4046This is a Christmas gift given me my the Brown Eyed Girl that will have meaning for a great long while.Anyone who knows me knows my deep affection for Oregon, the place I was born in. Yo… Read More
Unboxing The Bob Ross Master Paint Set
2021-12-26 09:19
4045ART SUPPLY DEALER (slapping the side of the box): "You know, you can fit a lot of art and happy accidents in this bad boy!"This is a Christmas gift whose impression will endure for me. T… Read More
A VanGogh Watercolor Pocket Box
2021-11-25 07:15
4043Whether or not I actually get round to using them, I'm a sucker for pocket watercolor paint boxes. VanGogh, a brand of Royal Talens has a selection of good ones. They've curated a f… Read More
The Persistence Of Vision, The Home Game
2021-11-25 06:54
4042Who said Dali was just imagining it?This was on one of the shelves at I've Been Framed-Art Supply Center, and it didn't have a price tag on it, but I imagine it was for sale. We just don… Read More
Bike City Art Store
2021-11-25 06:49
4041I'm betting your art supply store isn't as au courant as mine.Looking out onto SE Foster Rd from the watercolor section of IBF, three days ago.Don't you wish your art supply store was ho… Read More
The Face Of A Minstrel
2021-11-21 11:11
4038There was an OryCon this year, OryCon 42. And they're taking a year off, a 1-year hiatus isn't a big deal when you consider 42 years without a break, including Pandemic Year, when it was… Read More
Pearlescent Russellville Sunset
2021-10-31 09:44
4028Nothing special about this, except tonight was a sunset day for pearlescent fire-clouds which were most gorgeous. This, looking west from the corner of SE 103rd Dr and Stark Street, bust… Read More
Don't Be A Menace To A Good Night's Sleep
2021-10-31 09:31
4027I was hoping for a picture of the mountain itself as I wended my way home tonight but the sun was down too low. But I did see this rendition of it on a truck parked in downtown Parkrose… Read More
Still Life With FATE
2021-10-11 06:44
4016Another pic from the inside of I've Been Framed, this from the top of what was once the sole display case from the vintage art-supply "Museum":I call it Still Life With FATE.This number… Read More
A Palimpsest On Tenth
2021-10-07 07:12
4015This scene still exists within a block of the monolith I maladroitly complained about in episode 4014. It's a block of SW 10th Avenue, just before you get to Taylor Street and the b… Read More
It Rises Over Tenth Avenue
2021-10-07 06:56
4014You have no doubt heard of the Ritz Carlton being built on the block bounded by SW Washington and Alder Streets, and SW 9th and 10th Avenues. We drove past it on our way to Powells, and… Read More
Just The Ends Of Watercolor Pencils
2021-10-06 05:58
4012I didn't get this in whole because I was distracted by else the last time we did IBF, but I did this time. This is simply just the end of the stock of inexpensive watercolor pencils… Read More
A Quick Look At The Craft Wave Aqua Fan
2021-10-05 09:51
4010This is a great design for a portable watercolor set. Today I decided I was worthy of an art supply treat, and I've seen this on offer for quite a while. Figured it was time to take one… Read More

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