This street is lined with houses of varying hues of pink. First we have the salmon-colored one. Then the cotton candy one. We’ll call the third one dusty rose. It’s almost as if cotton candy house went first, which either inspired or infuriated the homeowners to the left and right. Regardless, this is no coincidence.

I’m looking out the window of Cellar Door, a local coffee house in Southeast. The latte was exceptional and went down way too quickly. If you’re in the vicinity of SE 11th and Harrison I recommend you drop in and try the espresso, maybe even buy a bag of beans for the road. While you caffeinate, sit in the window and watch people pause before entering the A-1 Food Market across the street. For some reason they all reemerge with nothing in their hands.

For the next few days I’m going to be a bit quiet here on Look, Something Shiny! Latice and Bryan are keeping me very busy with projects, delicious meals, and chuckles over “high gravity” beers. But don’t think that I’m not going to do my best to tell you all about it. From now until the 19th of this month, check the Photos page frequently to see the fun through my camera lens. Whenever I have a quiet moment (and I anticipate one or two this weekend) I’ll post some stories about the goings-on. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures!

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease,

~Nyco

If I could afford to take the time to write out all that has happened this week, I promise you, sweet internet reader people, that I would. But I can’t at this moment. Instead, I offer you three new albums of Photos (also a few fresh additions to the PDX at Random set) and lots of virtual hugs and kisses and whispers of promises to be back soon. Soon, darlings…

Jed masterfully incorporated a Flickr plugin into my Photos page, as Flickr is the client I use for video and picture management. I LOVE how my sets are displayed on my Photos page, which is why I encourage all of you to not bypass it and go straight to Flickr. From now on I’ll be sure to mention in my blog posts if there’s new candy in the Photos department, at which point I advise all of you to drop everything! and click! the Photos link before your brains explode! with anticipation! Then mosey on over to Flickr (once you click the title of a set you’d like to view, look for the link at the bottom of the thumbs table) to get the full effect of the captions, titles, and picture quality. If you need help, please comment on this post. Thanks for playing, everyone!

Oh, and there’s new Photos today… ReadySetGO!