ME II: Chaval

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We woke up to a soft drizzle that drizzled all day and is predicted to all night until morning. It's pretty warm mid-40s with a high of 70° expected tomorrow! Read that as light-weight muggy. I had the first day in a long time without any meetings which is all to say that I got a ton of stuff done, which makes me happy.

I love to walk in the rain, I've always loved it. We had a nice early walk and then we had a date night and went to Chaval which is a close-by sort of up-scale restaurant. By close by I mean two blocks. We thought we would go last year but we never made it. It was quite good, but not great. Nevertheless, we had a wonderful time together and it was date night!

So we have been seeing these yellow signs on many cars that say "Ticket & Tow Alert" so of course I had to look it up and found this article. I love that it makes sense to people what are the odd and even sides of the street. This is deeply confusing to me and we have had a lovely conversation about the endless possibilities of understanding this. The yellow signs are placed on cars that were there overnight because that will soon be prohibited as there is nighttime street maintenance.

The aforementioned Ticket and Tow.
The Red Oak across the street from our house is just starting to turn but my friend down the street is still resisting.

More beautiful trees.
Ta-da!
Beautiful Yarrow
Leggos being loaded, most days there is a large ship sitting in the harbor loading things right where we walk.
Long live the dive bar. Not exactly edible food but I'm glad it exists as an almost always open station.
Nice damp decorations.
Damp Cats of Portland.
This building lives across from Chaval and is just a perfect dark looming building on a foggy rainy night.
Tree love.
Western Prom on a dim and damp evening.

Have a dreamy evening.

Short bird list today - work and rain:

  1. Herring Gull
  2. Blue Jay
  3. House Sparrow
  4. European Starling
  5. Black-capped Chickadee
  6. Rock Pigeon