yesterday's comfort of simple layers, driving to the 90s & late night chocovine...

I wallowed in the splendor of new and quiet landscapes
the comfort found in familiar songs
the perfection in desperate, maudlin voices

the adventures of passion told in doleful eyes

i love full, lush foliage...

The dreary weather broke just long enough to enjoy a nice afternoon in Portland's Japanese Garden. I must have taken more than a hundred photos there! It's hard to get used to seeing such bright green, full, beautiful trees after all the desert landscapes that used to fill my life. But I am starting to really love all the forests and the way the world looks much more mysterious under some fog...

click 'em for a larger view. there are always more photos on my photostream @ bottom of page...