The Jordan Harold Update
Summer 1995
1717 SW Park Ave #614 Portland OR -97201-

Things here are pretty grand. I think I could get to like this town. Scratch that, I do like this town. We do a lot of walking, Jordan and I, trying to get to know this place. The streets are filled with neat things to see and faces that smile to say good day as we pass. This city is very hilly though-(not flat Davis town my calves tell me) up and over and up and over again down to the river through streets with fountains and streets with green ways and parks.

We were out about ten minutes into the SouthWest Hills of Portland late last week. Cooler they were, even green with homey looking houses and place to garden. Perhaps a place to settle when all is said and done after Louis gets out of school...

Yesterday we drove off towards the ocean through the coastal mountain range. There were great stands of pine and carpets of curling ferns. I was confused by what looked like forsythias but it is far too late in the season for them. I was also greeted by hordes of fox gloves. A long drive to the sea but a beautiful one I’m sure we’ll do again. Next week are the Cougar hot springs!!!

Last week the Rose Festival started with about a half an hour of fireworks. Sadly we couldn’t see them from our window and since I had already put Jordan to sleep on our bed we couldn’t go out to watch them-so I laid down among the toys (Bozo’s and Jordan’s, pretty much interchangeable these days with Jordan so mobile-he is pulling himself to standing now on anything that holds still long enough) and imaged the fireworks....they were wonderful and sparkley fine.