The Tilsons

Photos from our weekend in Seattle with Mom & Dad Tilson:

By far the most memorable concert we’ve been to in Portland was the Fleet Foxes concert last night at the McMenamin’s Edgefield Ampitheater.  As lead singer/songwriter Robin Pecknold mentioned, “It takes a little effort to get here”… buying presale tickets to a sold-out show, driving the 30 minutes outside of the city, parking in some random [...]

Kicking off one of our most memorable weekends in Portland ever was a Saturday morning hike in the west hills of Portland.  Leif Erickson Trail is riddled with switchbacks and side-trails that wind through the doug firs and evergreens, ravines that give way to streams below, and provides momentary glimpses of Mount St. Helens and [...]

“The summers here are glorious!” is a constant rebuttal among Portlanders to the accusation that it rains all the time. And while this may be true most years, it’s unequivocally false this summer. The weather has been utterly depressing. Luckily for us, we’ve spent most of the summer outside of the Northwest—in Florida, New York [...]

“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Over the past two weeks, I’ve learned about being productive when “in limbo.”  Between jobs and having already taken summer vacation, it was vital I found something useful to occupy my time. This week, my self-assigned project is scanning old [...]

What we are reading this summer: Bryan – Why the West Rules — For Now; Swann’s Way; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil             Kari Ann – Counterfeit Gods; Game of Thrones series

If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you know that we’ve been attempting to watch the top 100 movies of all time. We used to blog about each movie we watched. Sadly, it’s become a much slower process than we anticipated. It takes a lot of willpower to constantly watch these movies–some of [...]