Codi and I are members of the Oregon Zoo, so we like to visit as often as possible. We were there on Sunday and had a good time.

As you can see, the butterflies were pretty friendly – and somewhat fearless. One of them spent over 20 minutes climbing all over Codi’s sweater!

Codi and I went to CPK for lunch today. When we got out of the car, I looked up and saw an amazing sight – a 360° rainbow – a perfect circle, directly above. It seems that there was some thick mist a few thousand feet up in the air, and that mist was creating a prism effect, just like a normal rainbow does, but this was located way up in the sky. I took about 20 pictures, most of which turned out quite well. I’ve only seen this phenomenon in Oregon – three times now.

I took this shot directly at the sun – shutter speed set at 4000 and f22.

I used the corner of a building to block the bright sunlight. Of course, I only got 75% of the rainbow, but it’s still a cool effect.

Codi and I went to the Portland Rose Gardens on Saturday. The roses were in full bloom and boy, did they ever smell good! Surprisingly, the rose gardens were a very popular weekend destination – there were hundreds of people there, whereas usually there are only dozens. We got some good photos this time. All images below link to larger versions. Click to see the larger picture.

Codi and I went to see Swan Lake at the Keller Auditorium in Portland last night. It was a very, very good performance, though we were slightly distracted by a man snoring directly behind us. How rude – blow your nose, have some coffee or stay home! Aaanyway, the performance was quite good – almost as good as ballets I’ve seen in Moscow.