Vista House Observatory Columbia River Highway Oregon Size:24x18 Judging Rose Festival Floats Multnomah

Judging Rose Festival Floats Multnomah Stadium Portland Oregon arrives in a tide of blossom-laden floats wheeling across the stadium turf — petals banked deep over wire and chassis

and the river curling silver toward distant hills

Battle of Chancellorsville

The likeness is reverent

Vista House Observatory Columbia River Highway Oregon Size:24x18 Judging Rose Festival Floats MultnomahVista House Observatory Columbia River Highway Oregon arrives in octagonal stone perched high on Crown Point, its rotunda windows surveying the gorge where basalt cliffs plunge toward the river's silver bend. Built to crown the great scenic highway, it stands sentinel over winding switchbacks and Douglas fir a marble jewel of the auto touring age, cataloged in linen and real photo postcards from the 1920s and '30s. About the Source Bella Frye curates