In the pre 9-11 world, you could actually greet your visitors at the gate as they got off the plane. Ah well.
I’ve always had a terribly conflicted relationship with the concept of people noticing me.
Also, moving to Portland, right around here, was when I started getting serious about photo-sourcing backgrounds, and so the background art picked up tremendously from here on out.
When I moved to Portland, I did it via a 6 month road trip. I don’t think I ventured out a terrible lot in the first week.
Um, because a scad is another word for a horse mackerel, of the family Carangidae.
Trust me, i didn’t know this either, I looked it up.
Love that background. And that was the kitchen of the house I lived in. What a pretty house.
And too often I’ve had to give myself pep-talks to get myself to go out. Sigh.
I had to have her meet someone somehow, because I certainly didn’t know how on earth i was going to meet anyone in my new town of Portland.












