pah pah pah....
Portland began with Mmmm lulu's chocolate and writing heartfelt letters to a warming earth....butoh performances and live music, sculptures, lounging in the park......setting sun in the rose garden with an epic, gothic style community performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (my mouth hanging agape after the show).
waterinthedesertfestival.org/
Fire and song and silly and serious......chasing eachother longing with flowers in hand.
Lovers are silly....scented, inventive, delusional.

We were welcomed into Kyrstyn's household guarded by many strong cats all with their story, and a spirited bird that is flying still. Many shades of green.
Shakedown in the backyard!
Heavy laden....venturing into the chasm.
Many stringed jamming goodness and feasting delicious plums and black and blueberries and fresh stevia and catmint and buzzing bees on lavender entrance with lions.

Busking experiments, dumpster diving, bicycle rides, picnics under large trees.
There are trees everywhere in Portland!

Shadowjam at the "Pink House": A Unicorn's journey. Red lipped woman....you hoooo! Green eyed boy....searching.

Mt. Tabor excursions and nighttime view with the Uni-Cyclops lonely song.
Tumbling crumbling bike fall! Resilience!

Dents de Lion
Queen Anne's Lace nestled in safe sleep

We just left a free off the grid festival full of climate change activists on a large farm just outside of Eugene.
www.climateconvergence.org/west/
Campfire singalongs, solar powered oven plan, wildcrafted edibles tour, strange acceptance of current extinction underway. Just accepting it and making survival plans from there...

Eat your shadow!

Just Dune it!

Onwards from here we are doing some camping down the coast of Oregon into California.....
(sand between my toes as I type this)