Seen on TriMet, MAX Yellow Line this time for people watching.

I'm making up a story here. When she boarded the MAX Yellow Line train, the lady sat in the only empty seat and turned tightly to her right, holding herself so that she didn't accidentally look at the boys beside her or what leaned between the legs of the one with the black hair. That lady had a brother who loved his skateboard back in the 1960s when they were new to the world and much shorter, narrower, rolled on a different sort of wheels. It's been over fifty years, and she still can't look at a skateboard, it matters not that these days skateboards look nothing like they did back then. If she glimpses a skateboard, hears one clackety-clacking on the sidewalk, and the break in her heart freshens with her awareness. Yet her reaction has nothing to do with those changes and all to do with the fact that her beloved brother, drafted into the US Army, came home from Vietnam in a body bag.

Steel Bridge, MAX coming and going on a blue sky day.

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September 20, 2011, a Tuesday. 1:50 p.m. I rode the MAX Yellow Line to the clinic at Kaiser Interstate to get my eyes checked. There was a giant floater in the right one, sort of like a black fern, but it didn't get in the way of my seeing this opportunity to take a photo of the MAX Green Line heading towards us on the Steel Bridge as we crossed the Willamette River heading northeast. There's a gentle curve in the tracks here that allows this exciting view from one train to the other. By the way, the floater eventually disappeared, thank goodness. And, once again, I have found a bit of blue sky day to share with you.

My last, as of now anyway, photo of Running Horses, Tom Hardy, 1986, Bronze

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Running Horses on the move, right beside the TriMet MAX Yellow Line cars, heading north on SW 6th Avenue, downtown Portland. If you remember the other Running Horses posts, you might be wondering why this is a Yellow Line MAX on the Green Line. Both of the lines share the northbound tracks on SW 6th and the southbound tracks on SW 5th.

One of these days I just might take more photos of this public art, but for now, this is the last one. I really like the feeling of movement caused by the blurry light rail train cars. Hope you do, too.