happy festive friday!

hi guys. how are yall doing? i hope you're doing well. festive friday today will ask a bit more involvement, so i hope you're up for it! it'll also require that you make another individual post (rather than hit reply with comment to this post). feel free to take your time--as you've prob noticed, i take my sweet time responding to posts= P--as this may require you to do a little thinking/hunting if it's something that's not already been done yet.


OKAY, so enough with the cryptic intro--for me, festive = fun, happy, etc. in light of that, please post a photo taken this summer of something that has made you happy and explain to us what the picture is and why it makes/has made you happy. here i go with mine:


this little piece of my hometown is called pioneer courthouse square. it's in the middle of downtown portland and a block away from where i'm working this summer. this makes me happy because i come here to sit and eat lunch and looking at flowers while eating food, i've discovered, is a highly pleasurable experience.


this courtyard is sort if a funny little anomoly in downtown portland. the rest of downtown definitely doesn't look this pretty or lively. in particular, there's all these flowers and trees set up because there's gonna be a sale in a couple weeks or something. anyhow, the designers thought it appropriate (i guess?) to add some plastic deers to the flowery landscape so there are random plastic deer all around (visible if you enlargen the pic).


anyway, around noon everyday, tons of people come out and sit on the steps and eat lunch, feed the pidgeons, talk on their cell phones, or just sit and soak up the sun. they've made a faux-grassy knoll (ah yes, which we need since we're sooo urban= ) that some people sprawl out and take naps on. one time i saw someone standing atop the knoll holding a sign over their head that said "free hugs." pioneer courthouse square draws a mix of bums, ceos, hippies, skaters, pregnant moms and starbucks drinking messenger bag toting types. it's great people watching. i'm getting acquainted with the heart of my hometown for the first time and it's been fun.

[p.s. tim--hope your mcat goes well!]