I'm sharing this with you as my effort towards making today at least a heart-warming day since nothing else is warm in Portland today. It is 18 degrees at 9:30 a.m.!

Turn up the volume to hear me explain how this beauty is now in my studio apartment. Thanks!

Seen in the neighborhood

A vintage gas station, what my parents and grandparents often called a filling station or a service station, houses the closest Goodwill to my studio apartment. It's a good thing that it is a Donation Express only. I have plenty of stuff already. I took this photo at 7:37 p.m. on May 9, 2013, so those items that had been donated during the day must have already been loaded onto that truck prior to being taken to another location for sorting and pricing and such--that's my guess anyway. Lots of times when I've taken notice, that garage has been full of all sorts of stuff.