Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Portland

Spending a day off in Portland: a visual voyage.

A study in the red brick of Portland. It has taken us a little while to get our footing here in Portland. In order to do grocery shopping we have found that there isn't an easy route to just go by a supermarket, but instead it becomes a meander around the peninsula and an exploration of the few small grocery stores. Regretfully these little shops are not all near one another and we have since devised a meandering route around town that begins in our area of large apartment complexes (a couple of large hotels converted to apartments). This town is full of restaurants, but since this town is based on tourism many of these restaurants aren't for the people who live here and less so for the pay that we make living here. After nine months we seem to have figured out a few holes in the walls of Portland though that go against this trend. Omi's Coffee Shop. - Jessye reads from some Architectural Digests that were hiding under the table. I think we have finally found our c...

The move to Maine: Our new city Portland.

After finishing up my BFA senior thesis and graduating we packed up all our belongings and headed East. Off into the sunrise. My wall of the BFA Thesis show. Somehow we ended up arriving in Maine a whole day before we had planned on arriving, but with driving through the night and switching off the whole way there with only a short stint in Minnesota where we took a quick nap at a truck stop, and then two stop overs with some relatives of Jessye, we were making good time. When we arrived in Maine they were having rain showers, which were apparently making up for the fact that the season switch had gone from winter to summer and it was finally making up for the absence of spring. Our beginning in Maine started out with being lazy at Jessye's grandparent's place in the woods on an island in Harpswell, Maine.  Spending the day watching TNG on BBC America and short trips out when family members would visit. The Pemaquid Light House. Dobra Tea. Where I work. Then wit...