Colors of Portland

Resilient, alien greens growing on sleeping trees, almost as if the barren earth is being re-cultivated, the flip side of extinction, distant life hitchhiking in frozen stasis, smashing toward a slow, beautifully complex multi-tiered world. Oregon in December is a lingering gray mist that soon leaves at the early approaching night. Black nights, but neon candles from the buzzing city nestled in the hills set travelers through the suspended, blooming stars of Portland. The ever present background mixture of back-lit somber, soft light and clouds cause yellows, bright blues, orange, and red to strike the unfamiliar eye. An exciting place to discover color, like gems among mountain rock.