Winter Opposites - No. 7, Another shot of that busy corner at Pioneer Courthouse Square

Sunshine brings people outside where they are together, talking, laughing, walking, looking. I took this photo of these people outside our NBC affiliate KGW's Studio on the Square. Several weekday broadcasts originate here. I took this photo, which is just a few feet north of the photo on Tuesday's post, on September 2, 2011.

See the bits of pink in the background? To the left, that's the box office for the Big Pink Sightseeing Hop-On Hop-Off Trolley Tour. And the other pink, to the right, is the actually trolley, waiting on SW Broadway for tour-goers to board. You must be very careful when getting off, though, because that last step can be much higher from the sidewalk than you're expecting. My sweet friend Kay tore something in her knee getting off in 2012 and had to have surgery followed by rehab.

We hopped off and waited for the Portland Streetcar so that we could ride it to the Aerial Tram

The Aerial Tram, a close up I took while we were up at the top of Marquam Hill.

Scroll on down to see a photo of Mt. Hood.


A Portland Streetcar, like the one we would ride back to the corner where we would then hop back onto the Hop On Hop Off Big Pink Sightseeing Trolley.


While we waited for the streetcar to arrive, a Zipcar truck stopped at the corner. Pretty cool.


We rode the Aerial Tram to the top of Marquam Hill. Here's a photo of the next one arriving.


Mt. Hood from the observation deck at the Oregon Health Sciences University. I had to alter it some at Picnik, the haze was that bad. I like how it turned out.

Roses we saw when we rode the Hop On Hop Off Trolley on Friday, August 19

First stop, the Visitor Information Center at Pioneer Square where we got the two of them a 14-day TriMet pass so that we could ride all sorts of mass transit without having to worry with correct change and whether or not the transfer had expired. TriMet has several ticket windows right inside that doorway behind them. The waterfall feature sounds wonderful.


Milton stopped at the ticket booth for the Portland Hop On Hop Off Big Pink Sightseeing Trolley--it departs from Pioneer Square on the hour and stops at sights all over the city. We rode along until it came to the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park. Here are some of the roses we saw.