Dead Freeways Ride POSTPONED

Hey all. After riding around in the unexpected and uncharacteristic heat in the Bay Area the last few days (92F/33C in San Francisco on Tuesday, really?) I'm not looking forward to leading a bike in Portland's first heat wave of the summer. So tomorrow's Dead Freeways Ride is not happening. I plan on rescheduling it...

Bay Area Trip Diary 2022, Part One

Hello all! The blog is a bit quiet this week as I spend time in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here is a journal comic report of the trip so far. Enjoy!

Reminder: Dead Freeways Ride this Saturday, June 25

Hello friends! The weather this week is supposed to be good, finally! (Yeah, I'll be in the Bay Area for most of it, so what? 😉 ) And there are still available spots on what J. Maus at Bike Portland calls one of my "nerdy, educational rides." Want to join? What if...Portland built all the...

REMINDER: Portland Art Picnic at Woodstock Park is TOMORROW, Sat 18 June

Hey everyone! I’ll be tabling at the awesome @portlandartpicnic tomorow, Saturday June 18th from 12-3 at Woodstock Park in SE. This is an awesome event, and free to attend. I’ll have available everything you can get from my online store. Hope you can make it! And if you can’t, the Art Picnic will be doing this monthly...

A June film photography update: Reaching capacity, again

MG. Laurelhurst, 5 June 2022. Camera: Ricohflex Dia Film: Ilford XP2 Super (C-41 B&W) Hello, friends. It's now almost two-and-a-half years since I got back into film photography. It's been a journey of more ups than downs, a good diversion to have during these trying times. In this time I've shot several hundred rolls of...

On the nostalgia and reality of a past decade

Camera: Minolta XD5 Lens: Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Ultramax 400 The rule of thumb is that nostalgia for a particular decade occurs twenty years after it happens. This is because people in their teens to early twenties during that decade would be in their thirties or older when the nostalgia comes around. It's...

Reminder: Sunset Moonrise Ride is tonight! (Tuesday June 14)

Hello! It's the first Sunset Moonrise Ride I'm doing in 2022! What can I say, a lot of full moon days have been wet and cloudy. But tonight should be good, sunny and a high in the mid-60s! Did you know that on the night of the full moon, sunset is usually right before the...

Pedalpalooza 2022 Kickoff Ride: Wed 1 June

The Kickoff Ride in The Fields Park, 1 June 2022. Camera: Minolta XD5 Lens: MC Celtic 28mm f/2.8 Film: Ilford HP5+ Pedalpalooza, Portland's annual summertime bike fun festival, is back. Since 2021 Pedalpalooza is all June, July, and August. (You can see the rides I'm leading here.) Pedalpalooza has traditionally started off with a big...