Here are a few of my favorite things for today (cue Coltrane...okay, okay, Julie Andrews!): (1) Trader Joe's vanilla Joe-Joes. My God they're addicting and, like many things at Trader Joe's, they have no right to be this good! (2) Portland Metro's Free Toxic Waste Disposal, every week between the months of March and November (I believe). They'll set-up at different locations around town and you can get rid of your old paint cans, etc. for free! I love you Portland. (3) Columnar basalt. Growing up in eastern Washington and making countless trips through the Columbia basin, I was constantly enthralled by the basalt formations left by the lava flows that covered so muc of the region. Columnar basalt--the spectacular example is the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland--is found all over eastern Washington and, along with the ponderosa pine, the very emblem of the region for me. (4) The Roadside Geology series. A series of books about the geological formations one sees along the highways of various (mostly western, I believe) states. Invaluable on roadtrips through Oregon and Washington. (5) Michael Palin's performance as Dennis the Anarchist in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. One of the finest sequences in the movie, and Palin's masterful combination of pain-in-the-ass know-it-all, no-one-ever-listens-to-me whiner, and medieval nerd-cum-political idealist is timeless. "Help, help! I'm being repressed!" Bloody peasant.
Here's Ian and me after bath time sometime this last spring.
Adios,
JBF
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