looking up

The whirlwind trip to the beach DID work! Things look less insane and impossible than they did before. hooray! I fully recommend driving in the country DURING THE WEEK <-- (that part is important) to counter any number of brain-eating maladies. It is so worth the tank of gas! ( I feel compelled to note that the trip only took one tank of gas, despite the fact that we drove up to Astoria, then down the coast to Lincoln City, all around god's green earth and then HOME.)

This picture is from a park at Gleneden Beach -- I'd been to GB before, but never this particular spot. So beautiful! Something about the tide, time of day, and particular make up of the shore caused big loud waves, which were really quite lovely.

In other news, I have decided that Barnes & Noble is off my list. I never find what I want there, everything irritates me (except for possibly their selection of music magazines, but I am always having to shove in front of some brain trust reading Maxim or whatever to even GET to them.) Powell's is it for me now. Bec and I went late this afternoon just to have a look around. It's been FOREVER since I'd been there -- I used to go all the time when I worked downtown. It just made sense. Well, it STILL makes sense. I mean, Amazon totally does too because they have good deals and it's convenient. But Powell's -- there's nothing quite like walking into the main store downtown and just KNOWING that you are in a giant building FULL of books (new and used living happily together on the same shelf). Anyway, it cheers a person, it really does. It smells right, it feels right, and dammit, it just IS RIGHT. We only did part of the gold room, and part of the blue and green rooms, but it was delightful. It was okay that we just did part, because now we know we must go back at some near future date.