Portland According to Me

Thanksgiving on the Geiselmans' Farm!

Rode down to our cousins' organic berry farm for Thanksgiving. It was a scenic 30 mile ride through rolling farmland, with Greg towing a trailer with Bruce the dog (aka Sophie) and Anna towing one with the food we cooked. Took us about 3 hours on the way down and 2.5 on the way back.

Note Bruce enjoying the view

View of Mt. Hood from the road

The pie collection (Anna's cranberry one's a little squashed because it rode in the bike trialer)

Frozen lacinato kale in the garden the morning after Thanksgiving

The farm house

Sheeba the dog walking in the woods on the farm

Jim, Anna, and Greg watching The Two Towers the day after Thanksgiving

Cyclo-cross Crusade at Barton Park outside Portland

I got back to Portland on October 28th, ending ~6.5 months of nomadism since I moved out of NYC in April.

Taking a break from looking for apartments and working, I raced in a Cross race on Sunday at Barton Park:

enjoying the scenery

Greg jumping the barrier

Greg and Brian (one of his Ironclad teammates) on one of the run ups

Greg jumping the barrier again


Video I took of the first bunch of A-class men going over the barrier

Greg and I after our races

October '07 Trip (IA and CA)

My uncle Bill and his three dogs on his farm near Bonaparte, IA

Feeding time for the cows on Bill's farm

Tony and Bill discussing the sweet potatoes from Tony's garden

A mammoth tooth uncle Tony found (about a food long)

One of many hand-crafted cases holding artifacts uncle Tony has found



These two deer skulls were found in the woods interlocked just like this. The two bucks had gotten caught with each other while fighting and died trapped to each other.

One of Tony's pieces of woodwork, this one above the door in his museum

Kris Pruden, Paul Ingram, and myself, toasting at the Opsware party in Palo Alto

October '07 Trip (AR, MN, and IL)

I was in Conway, AR for work for a couple days, near a town that was literally called "Toad Suck"

Visiting Aunt Jeanette and Cousin Liam in Minnesota, this is on a drive down the Mississippi from the Wisconsin side

n LARK Toys in MN

Setset over the Mississippi

Cousin Liam and Cocoa the dog

Chicago

Chow, Paula, and Jasper

Nick, Chow, and Nat, checking out the essential oils

Reich's going away party (he moved from Chicago to Monterey, CA), congratulations John!

Reem and Reich at Reich's going away party (note Reem's "Unleash the Reich" shirt)

Please don't order this dish if you can't take the heat (Amitabul is a great vegan Korean place in Chicago, by the way)

Mary (proudly sporting the Food Fight shirt) and P. Dallas at Alice and Friends

Nat, Mary, Nick, Vanessa, Pete, Chow, me, and Matt

San Diego + Joshua Tree National Park

From Opsware's annual conference in San Diego


In HollywoodCousin John Rafferty and I on top of Ryan Mtn. in Joshua Tree

One of the biggest wind farms in the world

Portland in September

Six buckets of Voodoo Donuts donated for the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event

A donut and a couple marshmallows being roasted over the fire in Greg's front yard

Greg and Anna in Washington Park

The cousins' farm down in Canby, OR

Looking over the Columbia river between WA and OR to Mt. Hood

At the tail end of a wedding reception

After the wedding, a run to Voodoo donut

Greg juggling in his front yard

Leaf on the ground over by Oak Bottom park