Love you, baby.
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Why Portland is a dreamland: forest fucking park.Morning hike in our backyard #forestpark #hiking #fuckyeahportland @aaron_edge
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It’s raining its ass off in Portland, pleasing the goth and the navel gazer in us to no end.
true story.
Fell in love with a pen today… (Recife pens from France @beam & anchor)
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Chapman Swifts
The Chapman Swifts are part of a migratory population of Vaux’s Swifts that roost seasonally in the chimney of Chapman Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is North America’s largest concentration of Vaux’s Swifts.[1]
Every evening from mid-August to mid-October, thousands of swifts gather in the sky over the school shortly before sunset. Count estimates of 1,700 to 35,000 swifts have been reported. Shortly after sunset, over a period of 10 to 30 minutes, they fly into the top of the brick chimney (constructed c.1925) to roost on the interior surface until they depart at sunrise.[2] The school is on the birds’ migratory route to their wintering sites in southern Central America andVenezuela.[3]
The swifts attract several predators, such as Peregrine Falcons and Cooper’s Hawks, as well as hundreds to thousands[4][2] of human spectators.[5]
Last year I watched a hawk swoop down and grab a swift just as the flock was descending into the chimney. Suddenly, the whole flock of swifts stopped their descent and began chasing the falcon through the evening sky - just a massive black swarm of birds pursuing a single falcon for I’d guess ten solid minutes before reforming their cyclonic descending pattern to enter the chimney.
So. Don’t fuck with a flock of swifts.
True story. This is an awe-inspiring thing to witness and damn near impossible to capture in a photograph.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb6h88Yhm01qzu7odo1_500.jpg)
Chapman Swifts
The Chapman Swifts are part of a migratory population of Vaux’s Swifts that roost seasonally in the chimney of Chapman Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is North America’s largest concentration of Vaux’s Swifts.[1]
Every evening from mid-August to mid-October, thousands of swifts gather in the sky over the school shortly before sunset. Count estimates of 1,700 to 35,000 swifts have been reported. Shortly after sunset, over a period of 10 to 30 minutes, they fly into the top of the brick chimney (constructed c.1925) to roost on the interior surface until they depart at sunrise.[2] The school is on the birds’ migratory route to their wintering sites in southern Central America andVenezuela.[3]
The swifts attract several predators, such as Peregrine Falcons and Cooper’s Hawks, as well as hundreds to thousands[4][2] of human spectators.[5]
Last year I watched a hawk swoop down and grab a swift just as the flock was descending into the chimney. Suddenly, the whole flock of swifts stopped their descent and began chasing the falcon through the evening sky - just a massive black swarm of birds pursuing a single falcon for I’d guess ten solid minutes before reforming their cyclonic descending pattern to enter the chimney.
So. Don’t fuck with a flock of swifts.
True story. This is an awe-inspiring thing to witness and damn near impossible to capture in a photograph.
Why? at Wonder Ballroom 9/1/2012. Was every bit as amazing as I hoped it’d be.
This one time in Los Angeles, I fell in love with a boy who was moving back home to Portland, and I made him a mix CD with the M. Ward song “Paul’s Song” on it, where M. Ward sings “when you’ve left your heart in the Portland rain,” and I went to visit and we made out in the rain in Washington Park, and now it’s years later and I live in Portland, with that boy, and sometimes we take walks in Washington Park, and whoa, sometimes shit can really turn out better than you thought it would.
(Source: vredig, via stumptownmag)
Cue sigh of relief, creativity, rain boots, hoodies and long walks.
I assure you that the contents of this box are the absolute upper echelon of vanilla bean ice cream.
Now, if you’ll excuse me.
