Camera Phone Pictures

I've decided to start using my camera phone to document visual oddities and little moments from my day. These are the first of those images:

Walking out of a movie at the Regal Lloyd Center Ten I spotted this candy dispenser. Yep, you can now eat "Sour Cry Baby Tears". Mmmm . . . tears.

The other day I was buying a few things at the local Safeway when I came across these brilliantly named Captain Crunch clones. Is it just me or is that little squirrel on crack?

The weather was so nice last Saturday that after work I decided to walk from downtown to my apartment. I walked over the Morrison Bridge and down the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade. When I got down to the end of the esplanade at the east side of the Steel Bridge, the lower rail span of the bridge was raising to let a boat through. This is the only vertical, telescoping-lift span, meaning the lower span can raise and lower independent of it's upper span and seeing it action was pretty interesting. Earlier in the day I had actually told somebody that the bridge allowed for 6 different methods of transportation (car, heavy rail, light rail, pedestrian, bicycle, and boat).
These two bridges are perhaps the most underated of the 11 bridges that cross the Willamette River in Portland and from an engineering perspective the Steel Bridge is my favorite.

[Updated 2/22/2005 with a link about the Morrison and Steel Bridge and more text and links about Portland bridges.]

Posted by Noah Brimhall at February 21, 2005 11:38 PM