Dragon Shape-Shifters…In Portland? Doing What?
(Photo credits: Award winning Portland Photographer Ann Hubard)
Portland carries a little bit of the weird and crazy. A popular bumper sticker on thousands of cars says “Keep Portland Weird.” We pride ourselves on our eccentricity; our biking riding, coffee drinking, garbage recycling, organic ways.
One would think stories about magic and shape-shifting dragons and the women who fall in love with them would fit right in. Certainly that’s what I thought when I moved to Portland in 2005 and feasted on the visual treats of the downtown cityscape. The old steel bridges with their antiquated draw bridge lifts still functioning after a hundred years. The picturesque rivers. The turn-of-the-century brick buildings. Beautiful and utterly conducive to romantic stories.