one of my favorite things in the world is to wander around neighborhoods. i like to look at the houses and try them on in my mind and think about how i’d decorate them if i lived there.

one of my favorite neighborhoods in portland is king’s heights, in the hills above the alphabet district. there are many houses that i adore; it is full of flowers; it is quite a ways uphill from one of my favorite coffee shops; and there are secret staircases that bring you up and up and up (or down and down and down).

there is a little yellow house for sale near the top of the hill that i like to imagine myself and atlas living in.

someday, i need to find a neighborhood walking companion who knows about flowers. it would be rather nice to know what i’m looking at.