Stair Climb

Today Stephen and I went on a Stair Climb through Washington Park in downtown Portland. When the city was being designed they put a lot of effort into making it a pedestrian friendly place. Since there are so many hills they put up a TON of stone staircases. These often go right between houses, and through backyards. It is really neat. Stephen found out about it through a website, (dirt cheap Portland). We did our first one this afternoon. It took us about 50 minutes and we stopped at the end and ate a picnic. It was great to walk through the park with Stephen. I walked through it several times last year while I was doing the rambles with the Mazamas (which I want to do again this summer).

Here are some of the pictures that we took on our climb today.

This is a house that we passed along the way, about half way through. It is hard to tell, but it is a stone house with AMAZING carvings all over.

We were excited to see a flower in bloom in February!!