Time of run: 4:00 pm
Temp: 61 degrees F (feels like 60)
Conditions: Cloudy with sunbreaks, wind 2 mph
Distance: 3.5 miles out, 3.6 miles back (7.1 miles total)
Nice 7 mile run, just about right for my half marathon training schedule.
The first thing you see as you step out of the Belmont Library is some cool art.
This week, instead of showing photos in order, I'm grouping by theme. I saw signs of city infill, both during, and after:
And there were interesting houses, both small and large:
Another two overpasses, one showing the mass of cars/people gettin' out of Dodge on a Friday afternoon, and the other showing the Light Rail track and just how lower it is in comparison to the highway at this point:
There were schools, Grant and Beverly Cleary. (And how great is it that a school was renamed after a local author?)
This is Knott, the right street, to turn left. (That is, it IS the correct street to turn west.)
As for today's desination, the Albina branch, well, it's located next to (actually physically connected to) a Whole Foods store, which is a little weird. This place really has become gentrified in a big way. The library itself is quite small, but looks to have a lot of customers.
What you see inside in these two pics is what you get, no little nooks or quiet spaces here.
Grabbed two CDs that looked intriguing from the cover artwork:
Saw some more interesting buildings, the first some kind of apartments I think, and the second a store (or combination of stores). LOVE the colors.
And everywhere, still, spring sproinging out and making everything beatiful. Ah spring, my second favorite season of the year. If only I could somehow get the smells of these plants as I run past them on this blog! A real olfactory treat. And I feel VERY lucky not to have seasonal allergy issues!
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LAST WEEK'S MUSIC
Thin Lizzy, Fighting (2012 Deluxe Edition)(1975)
Wow, what a find! I'm a big Thin Lizzy fan, and appreciate that Lizzy and leader Phil Lynott (RIP) are WAY more than "The Boys Are Back In Town," with a big discography and a bunch of great deep cuts in the catalog. I've collected the deluxe reissues of several earlier albums but this one had eluded me, and after several years' of release date delays I'd given up on seeing this one. But boom, at the Belmont Library on this sunny Friday, here it was. Sweet! I finally got to hear bonus tracks such as this, showing further depth in the Thin Lizzy sound and style than most classic rock fans are aware:
The Teardrop Explodes, Kilimanjaro (1980)
This was on the shelf right next to Thin Lizzy. Hm, Teardrop Explodes...love the name...I recall them being name-checked by various critics over the years...AHA yes! Julian Cope, singer/hallucinogenic explorer/agitator/general ranter at the moon. I've heard his solo stuff but somehow never traced him back to this, his first band. This debut album came out in 1980, and as the video shows, had elements of new wave (still gaining a foothold in the mainstream) while something harder edged than most new wave fare. Well, I liked the album okay, but I can sure see why Julian had to go solo after a couple of years. He simultaneously became a less commercial but much more compelling artist.
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