Oregon Brewers Festival 2010

As always, the Oregon Brewers Festival is held in at the Portland Waterfront on the last full weekend in July.  It’s a four day event from Thursday to Sunday and I managed to go taste some craft beers on Thursday and Friday.  I stayed away from the IPAs and stuck to the lighter beers, but [...]

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Brewers Fest 2010 Video

It was packed, and this was Friday afternoon, when people were still at work. [flickrvideo]http://www.flickr.com/photos/lao-ocean/4822050504/[/flickrvideo]

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EaT: An Oyster Bar

You know what they say… baby steps.  These are my itty bitty steps as I get back to updating and posting again.  This was a recent dinner at EaT: An Oyster Bar, a restaurant specializing in Cajun/Creole food. Fried okra.  After I had okra for the first time in Greece, I vowed never to eat [...]

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Summer Begins

Let’s hope the weather gets warmer soon.  I’m looking forward to some great things this summer.

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How Are You? I’m Pine, and You?

If there was an award for procrastination, I’d have several of those trophies on my fireplace mantle right now.  I should be doing my work sample right now, but I’m finding that updating my blog after 8 months seems more pressing at the moment.  Where have I been and what have I been doing since [...]

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The Urban Farmer @ The Nines Hotel

The Nines is a luxury hotel in the heart of downtown Portland. It houses two restaurants – Departure (modern Asian fare) and The Urban Farmer (a modern steakhouse).

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Cannon Beach

These are pictures of Cannon Beach from Saturday.  The weather was perfect and made for some nice photos. Above: Panorama of Cannon Beach

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Brewfest 2009

The Oregon Brewers Festival was this past weekend.  I attended with my brother and his friends Johnny and Jeolida. My brother and I.  I lurve him!  [In one of the Facebook photos of us, he captions: "At least I'm the second best looking person in my family."  Awww...] $1 = 1 token = 1 taste [...]

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Tulip Video

I took a short video yesterday of my day out in the tulip fields in Woodurn, Oregon. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e3cUj77klU[/youtube] Tulip fields

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