The sun shines between rain showers Feb. 18 on NW Naito Parkway near the Broadway Bridge. (Photo by Matthew Ginn © 2012)

A few weeks ago, Perrie made her annual pilgrimage to the tax man, affording me the better part of an hour to walk around Portland’s Pearl District with my camera. Two years ago, the weather was gorgeous; last year, not so much. This year, it was supposed to be nasty but turned out just fine.

For this year’s walk, I wandered around Portland’s central post office, Union Station and the bus terminal, as well as Northwest Naito Parkway. Once Perrie was finished, we met up and had brunch at the can’t-go-wrong Byways Cafe.