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Report: Heritage Tree Ride

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Riders: 33

As reported by Emily:

We had wonderful weather for this ride this afternoon. 33 people were there at the start including a gaggle of kids a few people from my previous tours and lots of first timers, both to Heritage Trees and Bikes. Many thanks to Jeff Bernards and Shawn Granton for help with counts, corking and that group photo!

We truly did have a liesurely ride through the neighborhood and got to see all the trees in full folliage. We were able to see the distinctive bracts of the American Hop Hornbeam for which it is named and we had the bonus of a beautiful flowering Northern Catalpa which was not a Heritage Tree (yet).

One of the Neighborhood Tree Liasons for Irvington, who is also an arborist, came along on his red Schwinn Corvette and spontaneously offered a bonus walk of the distinctive trees in Laurelhurst park at the end of the tour!

A good time was had by all.

Click here to see Deepak Saxena’s images.

“The Tour Baby” at the Bagdad

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Don’t forget to get tickets for Portland’s only showing of “The Tour Baby”. A behind the scenes look at the Tour de France and Lance Armstrong. There are two shows, this Weds (all ages) and Thurs (21+) at the Bagdad Theater (3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd.) Film maker Scot Coady will be present for Q & A at both shows.

Tickets are $12 or $25 for adults, $8 for kids under 16, available at Ticket Leap.

The shows are to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Event report: Clown House Circus!

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Went to the clown house last night. It was lots of fun. Didn’t stay too late cuz I had a 2 year old and a neighbor kid whose parents had no idea where I’d taken her…and we were on bikes without lights.

BUT, we stayed long enough to enjoy:

  • mud wrastlin’
  • flaming spool walking
  • lightbulb eating demonstration
  • original songs by Dingo the Clown and his cute sidekick (forgot her name but she was from Texaco…err, um, I mean Texas)
  • fire twirling
  • fire rescue by the clown house firefighters
  • general mayhem

I’m sure things got much more interesting after I left. Anyone have more photos or reports to share? I’d love to see some photos of the bike jousting. Feel free to email me or post to the Shift list.

Check the Clown House Slide Show!