Pretty, pretty Portland

So I’ve talked about my lunchtime runs enough that I figured this week I’d bring my camera along. As luck would have it, the weather was particularly cooperative. I have to give it up to Portland, when it’s pretty here, it’s ridiculously pretty here. And being this nice in February, I saw more people on my run route than I’ve seen in months. I took care not to capture them in my photos, as I find it obnoxios when people are taking pictures that I’m in, so you won’t see them here.

This is the Hawthorne bridge, taken just after you wind down the pedestrian/bike path “off-ramp.” If you were to turn left here, you’d see OMSI. But we’re turning right, so you’ll have to do that on your own…

This is our next major turning point – the Steel Bridge. I really love this bridge, and apparently it’s one of the only working steel drawbridges in the world. At least that’s what the locals claim. When I first moved here and did this route, I didn’t realize there was a pedestrian/bike path on the lower level and ran up to run across the top part which isn’t nearly as nice as this:

This is what you see when you run half-way across the lower deck and stop to take a photo. The next bridge is the Burnside Bridge, followed by the Morrison and way in the distance the one that started this madness, the Hawthorne.

Coming back, there were a number of homeless folks and tourists, neither of which I felt I should be photographing, so that’s it for pictures.