After Hours

Once in a while I come home from work very late at night and usually end up taking some pictures around Pioneer Square in downtown Portland while waiting for the Max light rail to arrive.   Downtown Portland is actually a very nice place to walk around in at night, it's a one time thing everyone should do if you ever visit Portland. 

Finally the Max arrives.

Random & Saturday

I love it when there are Saturday where we don't have any plans and don't know what to do. So we decided to drive around Portland to random places.  On this particular summer Saturday, we ended up in the Williams area in North Portland.  We took our time and hung out at Ristretto Roasters in the Lincoln building.  Keila randomly wanted to be a turtle.

Next to Ristretto Roasters is a home goods/floral store called Ink&Peat which is another store that I always end up going to because they have so many cool items that I want to buy. Not the floral stuff though, more like their display tables, letters, signs, etc...

 Cool light fixture at Ink&Peat

Williams Ave Ops

A while ago my family and I had a chance to check out a part of Portland that we've never been to.  Initially, my sister suggested we try a new restaurant in the area and I thought what a great opportunity to explore the area also.   The Williams avenue area is located in North Portland in the Boise Neighborhood.  I never even knew such a inter-urban development took place in a place like Williams ave.  The area I'm talking about is a good two and a half block stretch of restaurants, stores and coffee shops. 

Me and the woman in some cool looking brick wall.

I like the random red double-triangles shapes in this building front.

This place is called Eat: An Oyster Bar.  They have a pretty good size crowd in the weekends, I plan to try Eat pretty soon.  Below is another view of the restaurant.

A cool lighting display at Ink&Peat. There were many decor pieces that I really like at this store.

Pix Patisserie is an awesome dessert hang out place.  They are one of my favorite places to go to in Portland.  This is their second location, their original location is on Division.

Freedom Land

On the fourth of July, we went to our friend's house, James and Phyllis, for some awesome bbq and fireworks.  I should've taken a picture the steak that James made because it was so good.  He basically used coffee grounds as a part of the seasoning which gave this crispy-coffee like texture to the steak.  What a great dinner, thanks guys.  After that we lit some fireworks and these pictures are my attempt to capture them.  My favorite firework pictures are the one above and the last picture.

Adi's wild side comes out in the night.

Nana with the sparklers.

Random Lights

Lamp at Airport
Singapore

Lamp
Singapore

Above: Light bulb at office.
Left: Living room fixture