Around Portland OR (meaning Oregon),

Today was a tour of Portland.  We saw a big rose garden, a big bookshop, a big dam, and ate a big ice-cream.

The test rose garden:

Powells Bookshop was big - and was selling online before Amazon.  I tried TWICE to hand over money for a book but the queue was also too big. But their "carffee" was good.

The Bonneville Dam was part of the New Deal - where FDR began infrastructure projects during the Great Depression to create employment.  Keynesian economics was in fashion then.

When they build dams on these northwest rivers, they have to think of the salmon who have to get back home to spawn.  So they build fish ladders for the fish to climb back up.

Also saw this from the viewing window that looks underwater at the fish ladders.

They are not cucumber - they are lamprey!  Had to google it.  I had heard of them being used by Heston Blumenthal in his medieval feast.

Called in at Multnomah falls.  Not quite so big!  But it was a lovely place to wander around and eat ice-cream.

And Kin Mun was working on his camera.