July 10, 2015 – Out & About

Interesting funding mechanism

On the way into the Lone Fir Cemetery, I was met with this artist’s plea for money.

Corner of Morrison and 20th unrecognizable.

On my way to Lone Fir Cemetery to see Portland Actors Ensemble’s production of Macbeth, I did a triple take at the changes that have occurred since Matt lived in this neighborhood and we regularly drove through this intersection.

On the Southwest corner, this four-story mixed use building. I couldn’t remember what used to be here and the portlandmaps.com 2013 aerial photo told me it was an empty lot. Actually, if you look at this aerial photo from 2004 you can see the intersection as I usually saw it, albeit from a street level.

This corner had a few two-story buildings, one of which held a recording studio or music-type place.

This was an empty lot. It’s now a big condo complex.

And here’s the corner that hasn’t changed. Because it can’t. Because it has a cemetery.

Down the street where these tall condos were, there were single family homes.

Ch-ch-ch-changes. It was weird how the place where one’s eye finds the sky had shot so dramatically upward in my absence.

This is the order to read the Betsy Tacy Books

I re-read all the Betsy-Tacy books in preparation for my journey to Minnesota. They were read to me as a child and I read them myself in my childhood, but I wanted to review them before visiting the author’s hometown of Mankato, MN.

In my childhood I did not read what are known as the Deep Valley books, which take place in the same world as Betsy-Tacy but do not star Betsy or Tacy. Or even Tib. When I did the re-read I read all the Betsy-Tacy books then all the Deep Valley books. Due to the fact that most of our main players wander through (or are even large parts of) the Deep Valley books, I found myself annoyed and wishing someone had steered me to read the books in chronological order.

So this is a list of the Betsy-Tacy books with the Deep Valley novels interspersed so the timeline is not interrupted.

Betsy-Tacy