Rose Festival 2009

Freedom Bird
Originally uploaded by Mary Anne Thygesen.

Rose Festival 2009

Another festival has come and gone. The parades were wonderful. I had a great time going to the parades. The rose gardens have just started blooming. Everything is late this year.

Visit the Washington Park Rose garden 400 SW Kingston Ave, Portland , Oregon.

www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?PropertyID=1113&action=ViewPark

Or the Peninsula Park Rose garden 700 N Rosa Parks Way
Portland, OR for beautiful blooms.

www.portlandonline.com/parks/finder/index.cfm?action=ViewPark&PropertyID=507&searchtext=rose

These pretty gardens carry on the tradition of roses in Portland.

Writers Resource Fair

At Multnomah County Central Library
801 S.W. 10th Ave. Portland Oregon
503.988.5123
From noon to 3 pm Sunday March 15, 2009

This free event has over 20 venders offering editing, publishing, writing groups and books for sale. Plus it is held in the beautiful Central branch library. This library is worth a trip just to look at it.

www.multcolib.org/events/writersfair.html

National Money show

What a thrifty idea, looking at a lot of money with out spending any. See famous money like $100,000 bills, World’s most famous nickels and legendary 1804 silver dollar. This is the Numismatic Event of the year.

From 10 am to 6:30 pm, closes 2pm on Sunday, March 13 to 15, 2009 at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon.
777 NE MLK, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, OR, 97232
(503) 235-7575

Admission free

Spring Portland Home and Garden Show

Pendleton wool blankets
Originally uploaded by Mary Anne Thygesen.

EXPO Center

This show is worth going to because the diversity of the venders. I especially liked the Pendleton Wool 100th Anniversary booth. There was a huge wall of blankets. A display of Pendleton clothes from over the last 100 years. And lots of Pendleton wool items to buy.

There is a large amount of plants for sale. All the venders that show up for every show. You can enter to win an Adair home. Stop by Montivilla sewing. It was just fun to walk around in.

$10 admission. Three dollars off with Fred Meyers card. $7 dollars parking. Yellow max line, last stop.

OMSI

Now showing at OMSI is Da Vinci The Genius.

This show is fun and interesting. I was disappointed that not enough of the gadgets were interactive. They were cool to look at. The bike looked very uncomfortable to ride. The flight machines looked like birds. The Military machines were scary. The ball bearing and gear system were fascinating. What really piqued my interest was the information on his paintings. The layers, the pigments were exciting new information to me.

Also this weekend is the agate and mineral show.

They will be open Monday February 16, 2009 in honor of Presents day. Normally they are closed on Mondays.

Admission prices Adult $11, youth 3 to 13 and senior 63+ $9
Parking $2

OMSI
1945 SE Water Ave
Portland, OR 97214

www.omsi.edu

Stitches in Bloom Quilt Show

This quilt show is at the Oregon Garden located in Silverton, Oregon.

Friday January 30th and Saturday January 31st, 2009
10am-4pm
Adults $5, Seniors $4, Children 7 & under free. Fee includes admission to garden.
Look around the garden while you are there. The conifer garden is gorgeous to look at in January.
The web site has driving directions.

www.oregongarden.org

Peacock Lane 2008

Sunday starts the opening of Peacock Lane for the 2008 season. Opening day will be car free. The street will be blocks to traffic. Pedestrians will not have to deal with cars while enjoying the light displays.

Peacock Lane has been my favorite place to look at Christmas lights since I was a little kid. I feel the Christmas magic like a little kid when I go there to see the lights.

Lights on Sunday December 14 to Dec 31 6 pm until 11 pm. Between SE Stark and SE Belmont one block east of 39th. Tri-Met has buses going down both SE 39th bus 75 and SE Belmont bus 15. www.Tri-met.org

For a preview of the lights, see the slide show on their web page.
www.peacocklane.net