Butt Pictures

The Zebra picture for my Wordless Wednesday was typical of all the animals at the Portland Zoo on a very hot July day last summer. Not a single animal wanted to face the people that day. But since it was my only chance to visit the Zoo for a long time, the first and only other time being right after I moved here in 1997, I took a lot of butt pictures.

I stay as far away from Portland as I can. I have always lived near big cities, but I'm a quiet country girl at heart and don't care for all the hustle and bustle of the cities. When I lived near Chicago, I rarely went downtown. We visited the lake on stormy nights sometimes, the Brookfield Zoo, Fields Museum, Planetarium. Even the small town I'm in now is getting too busy. We have a major route called 99W running right through town and all the city folk take this route to get to the highway that leads to the beaches. On Friday's we have quite a backlog of traffic traveling the main road through town, so much so that a by-pass has been sought after for years now. There is an Australian bunch that wants to come in and build us a by-pass but they also want to toll 99W to pay for the by-pass. That's our only way in and out of this town. It's quite a hot topic around here.

One of these days I'm going to look for a small white house on a hill, or in a little grove of trees, I'll always have to have trees around me, and move farther away from town.