PORTLAND, OR | winter sol

downtownpdx · #1 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 5:49 AM**

While the rest of the country seems to be buried in snow, by some miracle normally-rainy Portland has been pretty much sunny since the start of the year. Here is a tribute to this wonderful freak of nature:

"We put birds on things!"

Kingofthehill · #2 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 7:05 AM**

America's own "Vanilla City." Love it.

Derek · #3 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 8:50 AM**

Beautiful!!

OhioGuy · #4 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 1:56 PM**

This all too typical western ridge/eastern trough weather pattern is frustrating for me, but I'm sure most people in the Pacific NW are loving it. Looks like a fantastic time to be in Portland!

ColDayMan · #5 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 3:08 PM**

Thanks for the tour!

giovanni sasso · #6 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 5:25 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

America's own "Vanilla City." Love it.

hey man, we may be vanilla, but we're a diverse vanilla -- we're breyer's natural vanilla with the bean specks, we're häagen-dazs smooth creamy french vanilla, and we're especially tillamook all local organic (is that USDA organic or oregon organic?) free range vanilla pod crisp.

good coverage as usual, dtpdx. bonus shots out the gorge, huh? might be a game changer, this one.

Expat · #7 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 6:03 PM**

The sweet life.

Kingofthehill · #8 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 6:06 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by giovanni sasso

hey man, we may be vanilla, but we're a diverse vanilla -- we're breyer's natural vanilla with the bean specks, we're häagen-dazs smooth creamy french vanilla, and we're especially tillamook all local organic (is that USDA organic or oregon organic?) free range vanilla pod crisp.

Oh, no. I hope you didn't take that seriously, sasso! I was quoting that now-infamous article from the now-banned thread that called PDX, Austin, and Minneapolis as being "white cities" with no actual diversity.

STLgasm · #9 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 6:27 PM**

Portlandia is looking good as always.

giovanni sasso · #10 Posted: **Feb 3, 2011, 6:56 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

Oh, no. I hope you didn't take that seriously, sasso! I was quoting that now-infamous article from the now-banned thread that called PDX, Austin, and Minneapolis as being "white cities" with no actual diversity.

ha ha, it's all good king. i didn't catch the reference (nor that thread), but ... stereotypes always have their origins in the truth. besides, i was defending portland's diversity -- natural vanilla, french vanilla, organic vanilla.

believe me, moving here from a major east coast city, i always hear (from there) about how white portland is. and it is, yes, but it's not ALL white. my hometown (tyrone PA, an appalachian central PA town of 5,000) is 99%+ white, so portland's 78% is a veritable melting pot compared to what i grew up with. the 22% other is very noticeable, too, namely in the food and shopping options across the city and suburbs, but also in the ethnic pockets you find in any city. but yes, the white areas of town are very white, and getting offended by that is silly at best, insincere at worst.

also dtpdx: ha ha, birds.

downtownpdx · #11 Posted: **Feb 4, 2011, 3:23 AM**

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Originally Posted by giovanni sasso

also dtpdx: ha ha, birds.

wondering of someone would catch that ... easy to skip over but i had to throw in a little 'portlandia' quote there. that show cracks me up, poking fun at all the quirky versions of vanilla that inhabit Ptown

Centropolis · #12 Posted: **Feb 4, 2011, 4:29 AM**

It looks like March there, it looks fantastic.

Okstate · #13 Posted: **Feb 5, 2011, 1:58 AM**

I can smell spring coming.

Sekkle · #14 Posted: **Feb 5, 2011, 7:41 PM**

awesome stuff man! Looks like we've had some of the same ideas, because a few of these shots are almost exactly the same as ones I've taken in the past week or two. Yeah, the weather has been pretty amazing lately (until today - seems like maybe we're getting back to normal).

downtownpdx · #15 Posted: **Feb 5, 2011, 11:48 PM**

yeah there are certain areas i can't stay away from when the weather's nice, even though i know i've shot them before

JiminyCricket II · #16 Posted: **Feb 25, 2011, 5:21 AM**

I can't wait for the Sounders to continue their tradition of clown stomping the Timbers this coming season in the top tier.

That being said, this tread is pretty damn awesome, Portland is as beautiful as Snow White...

ShadowMaster · #17 Posted: **Feb 26, 2011, 8:24 AM**

Top notch shots! Portland is always enjoyable to view. Moar~~

pEte fiSt iN Ur fAce · #18 Posted: **Feb 26, 2011, 11:21 AM**

Can't get enough of that sweet sweet Portland action.

detroitmetro101 · #19 Posted: **Feb 27, 2011, 2:30 AM**

the landscape and cityscape compliment oneanother perfectly.