Hott

Later Friday, Maxine, Cassie & I went walking neighborhoods. The weather has been tremendous the past few days and we've felt the energy of the city pick up, as well as our own. People walking everywhere. The guy at the coffee shop (Stumptown Coffee) said business is off because everyone is out enjoying the weather. And, while all of this is good, Maxine & I find it troubling that our mood is susceptible to the weather, for the obvious reasons about Portland's incidence of rain and grey skies... Gives us food for thought as we consider possibilities about moving here and makes us wonder how much the uniformly good weather in Los Angeles has seeped into our perspectives. Truthfully, we are hoping for some more rain so we can see how we react to it.

But, in the interim, we're enjoying long days (the skies have some blue in them till nearly 9pm), greenery, flowers, and chances to look at neighborhoods. And, that brings us to our dog-in-Portland story. While strolling through the Sellwood neighborhood, we (Maxine, Cassie, & I) walked past a dozen high school girls. We warned them that Cassie was not very friendly. The girl replied, "Well, she's hot(t) with two T's". So, here are two Cassie photos, at the window inside our house, the other posing in Sellwood.