Picturepocket's Blog

Category: Oregon

  • Does Size Matter?

    With all this talk of Trump taking Greenland, people have commented on how the size of Greenland on the globe looks different than the flat map representation. It’s only a fifth of the size of the US instead of this massive thing. I pulled out our handy-dandy globe we purchased while homeschooling during Covid-19 and…

  • Children’s Stories

    Something fun to do in Oregon is to visit the Enchanted Forest outside of Salem. Built into a wooded mountain side, kids can interact with various Grimm fairy tales before their Disney glow-up. I went as a kid and I’ve taken my daughters several times as well. They have a cute Humpty Dumpty, scenes from…

  • Swampland

    The land behind my home growing up was an old building site. It had bad drainage and had been abandoned. It was our playground the place that I return to in my dreams.  Every dark winter the uneven ground would fill up with water, all dank and boggy with brown skeletons of broken reeds and…