Happy New Year!

Happy what-would-have-been-our-42nd-anniversary, LeRoy, love of my life! Your sons and I miss you as we celebrate you and say a heartfelt, "Happy New Year!" to our family and friends.

We met on July 31, 1972; he asked me to marry him on September 24, 1972; we married on December 31, 1972; Lamont was born on September 24, 1975. Leland was born on October 31, 1978. LeRoy succumbed to complications from Crohn's Disease on April 14, 1983. In between all of those dates and because of those dates, our lives intertwined with love and joy and happiness and sadness, but ultimately with love and joy and happiness.

Happy anniversary, honey.

CDP Monthly Theme Day - Movement. My photo: Salmon Street Springs Fountain, at night, full wedding cake

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Here's the fountain at night in a photo that I took on July 2, 2008. I cannot tell for sure if there are lights in the bollards here, but I do remember that Mama and I were in the Buick we used to own. Stopped at the traffic signal, no one behind me, I grabbed my camera and took a few photos. This one shows folks enjoying being together, taking photos, walking along the Willamette River. My work building is the one with the lights on several floors, in the distance directly behind the top of the cycle known as the wedding cake. That's the Hawthorne Bridge you can see in the background, too.

From the City of Portland Web site:
Salmon Street Springs, Location: Waterfront Park, Naito Parkway at SW Salmon, Hours: 6:00 AM-10:00 PM during spring/summer/fall

Robert Perron Landscape Architects and Planners designed the fountain which was dedicated in 1988. A computer regulates the changing patterns of the water display. At full capacity, the fountain recycles 4,924 gallons of water per minute through as many as 137 jets at once. There are 185 jets. The three cycles of the fountain are called misters, bollards, and wedding cake.

Salmon Street Springs, in its many cycles, provides the perfect meeting place for many who enjoy coming together

I've taken photos for the Race for the Cure team made up of fellow employees for four years now. We always meet at the Salmon Street Springs fountain. I do not remember seeing in pink any other year. And the pink didn't last too long. I'm happy that I got this photograph! Based on what I read on the city's Web site, I think this cycle is a partial wedding cake.

From the City of Portland Web site:
Salmon Street Springs, Location: Waterfront Park, Naito Parkway at SW Salmon, Hours: 6:00 AM-10:00 PM during spring/summer/fall

Robert Perron Landscape Architects and Planners designed the fountain which was dedicated in 1988. A computer regulates the changing patterns of the water display. At full capacity, the fountain recycles 4,924 gallons of water per minute through as many as 137 jets at once. There are 185 jets. The three cycles of the fountain are called misters, bollards, and wedding cake.