31.12.11

two thousand eleven, in review.

Unsurprisingly, I find myself closing out yet another year wishing I had blogged more, taken more photos, and did an all-around better job of chronicling the day to day of my attempts at practicing adulthood. I am left with this smattering of photos highlighting 2011's greatest, from the numerous day trips with katherine anne, to timbers game days and seattle/vancouver away, and all-around enjoying the fair, cultivated culture of Portland Oregon for the first time as a true resident. From neighborhood association meetings to midnight bike rides, food carts to rain, 2011 was a good reintroduction to my hometown after a couple of years gallavanting around the Midwest (reoregonizing, if you will!) With any luck, 2012 will bring about nothing but more of the same. (decent jobs for Kate and I would be nice, too.)


OCC, originally uploaded by _ambrown.


newport, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



Emeril, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




orygun, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




Wintery Commute, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



DSC_0420, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



DSC_0510, originally uploaded by _ambrown.


cannon beach super moon, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



DSC_0462, originally uploaded by _ambrown.





DSC_0947, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



DSC_0967, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



DSC_0136-1, originally uploaded by _ambrown.






por que no?, originally uploaded by katesokol.



IMG-20110612-00239, originally uploaded by katesokol.





DSC_0190, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



IMG-20110729-00450, originally uploaded by katesokol.




pdx pop now 2011, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




just a hipster in a sea of bikes, originally uploaded by katesokol.

mississippi street fair, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




papa brown is RCTID, originally uploaded by _ambrown.

king of clubs, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



IMG-20110816-00489, originally uploaded by katesokol.


PICT0056, originally uploaded by katesokol.



DSC_0868, originally uploaded by _ambrown.






DESTROYED, originally uploaded by katesokol.



IMG-20110813-00475, originally uploaded by katesokol.

DSC_1624, originally uploaded by _ambrown.



Crater Lake excursion, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




DSC_0733, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




DSC_0764, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




DSC_0816, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




PICT0207, originally uploaded by katesokol.




PICT0198, originally uploaded by katesokol.

DSC_1890, originally uploaded by _ambrown.


oh hai, originally uploaded by _ambrown.


DSC_2054, originally uploaded by _ambrown.




DSC_7778, originally uploaded by stevenwilliambrown.



Most relevant albums of 2011:
1) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2) An Argument with Myself - Jens Lekman
3) Motopony - Motopony
4) Prison Boxing - Cataldo
5) A New Kind of House - Typhoon
6) Departing - Rural Alberta Advantage
7) Cape Dory - Tennis