Oh, Yeah! Keeping it Weird in Portland!

Benjamin's got some brand new shoes!  Just part of the fun at The Peculiarium, the world's strangest little museum. 

Portland prides itself in being weird and different, and just from our little visit, that was definitely true!

And, of course, I, being who and what I am, LOVED IT!

Pigs WITH a blanket!

This was a statues of the three little pigs that were randomly on the sidewalk of a neighborhood street.  And they just happened to have a blanket with them.  Seriously.  I did not stage this.

Benjamin and Alison stand in front of the Keller Park Fountain. If you look carefully, you can see the children near the edge of the Falls.  There were signs telling people not to do this, but they did it anyways.  I was concerned by it, and could hardly look at the Falls without stressing that there might be a fall.

The world's tiniest park.  For real.  It's a real official park.  A reporter in a nearby building was taking care of it, and decided to write a story about a leprechaun he saw there.  Portland caught the leprechaun park fever, and it became a local icon. 

Portland is the food truck capital of the world, with some 700 in the city.  We saw some of them, but we didn't eat at any.  They looked interesting, but I'm not a big fan of outdoor eating, where you might not even be able to sit down.  Hey, not everything is for every one.

Portland's greatest secret - the second largest copper statue in the USA (only behind the Statue of Liberty), Portlandia, a sort of female version of Neptune.  She guards the ports of Portland, by facing the wrong way a few blocks up from the port.  She is on a three or four story building, surrounded by much larger buildings.  There are also trees nearby that block the view, unless you are at the right exact angle directly across the street from it.

The artist that created it has retained the rights to it, and does not want photographs of it to be displayed, further adding to its mystery.  So, if somehow this little blog gets on his radar, I may have to remove this picture.

So, enjoy it while you can.