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| International Rose Test Garden
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| Part of the Portland's large rose garden.
| A sample of the rose beds and the plentiful trees that surround the
garden.
| A map of the garden. I took this picture to help navigate, but I'm
keeping it and uploading it to show the size of the garden. My original
picture looking down into the garden showed only about a sixth of it.
| Looking down from the rose garden at the surrounding Washington Park.
It's a verdant park. I particularly like the feathery willow tree.
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| I think this picture captures a typical scene one sees when wandering
around the rose garden.
| Another typical scene in the gardens: rows and rows of roses in varied
colors.
| A panoramic movie, portraying the look of the rose gardens better than
any individual picture.
| A grassy amphitheater. I have a sense that I relaxed here listening to
a performance on my visit to Portland in 2002.
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| A cluster of red roses in vivid bloom.
| Excellent. This flower is labeled "Grandiflora: Dream Come True
(plant patent pending)".
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Excellent. This flower is labeled "Hybrid Tea: Tahitian Sunset
(plant patent pending)".
| Another pretty flower, this one labeled "Dick Clark Grandiflora".
Nice pinks, whites, and yellows.
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| Excellent. These flowers are labeled "Color Magic".
| A vibrant yellow-and-red rose. Rated excellent by my mom.
It's a "Funkuhr Hybrid Tea (not in commercial production)".
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| Ditto. Can you tell I couldn't decide which picture was better?
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| Flowers enclosed the tennis courts across the street. This is probably
the nicest place to play tennis in nature I've seen.
| Roses were on the other side of the tennis court.
| A bee and a flower: pollination in action (though I'm amazed it works
given the flower's sharp pistils/stigmas/anthers (I forget what they're
called).
| Ditto. Maybe excellent for the crispness of the bee's wings (see
the full-sized image), the flower's ***, and, I guess, the bee's behind.
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| Elsewhere in Washington Park
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Washington Park is a big place, and there a few streets with houses in
the middle. (I guess the houses predate the creation of the park.)
I photographed this house because I thought it and its lawn were
particularly pretty.
| A house with many flowers. Also notice the other houses higher up the
hill.
| The flourishing greenery towering above the gate leading to the Japanese
Garden.
| The path leading up to the Japanese Garden.
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| While driving around the park, sometimes we were so amazed by the
abundance of the trees enfolding the road, we pulled over to take
pictures.
| | I like the smooth, stone-age feel of this house that we saw at the edge
of the park.
| I really liked the vibrant colors of this tree's leaves. Sadly,
although I think the picture does a decent job capturing them, it's not
perfect and it looks better in my memory.
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| Lunch at Bunk Sandwiches
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| Bunk Sandwiches, our lunch destination, is a hole-in-the-wall on a
not-particularly-dense commercial street on the other side of the river.
| The functional counter and food assembling area conveys the attitude
"we're here to serve you food, not service or decor."
| Served on a sheet of paper, Di Yin's pork belly Cubano, with ham,
swiss, pickles and mustard, was very good. (I tried it.) Di Yin liked
it as well: I saw her eyes light up when she bit into it.
| My pulled pork sandwich with apple cabbage slaw, mustard, and pickles.
With moist pork, it was an alright/decent sandwich that grew on me over
time. The slaw was like sauerkraut.
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| Columbia River Gorge
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| An excellent high-resolution photograph looking east at the
Columbia River Gorge from Chanticleer Point.
| Crown Point, as seen against the backdrop of the Columbia River. Also
excellent.
| Another perspective on the Gorge.
| Using my 10x zoom, a close-up of the Crown Point Vista House.
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| The Crown Point Vista House, also seen in earlier pictures (1, 2).
| A super-high-resolution photograph looking east at the Columbia River
Gorge from Crown Point. Excellent. It feels like something from
an earlier age.
| An excellent, very wide panorama of the Columbia River Gorge as
seen from Crown Point.
| A 360-degree panoramic movie showing the same scene, including the Vista
House.
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