Chriso (they/them)

A red painted wall in a bathroom with black market graffiti that reads”ps I ❤️ fags ♾️

The doorway of the Coca-Cola building in Portland

A framed black and white photo of a naked man with his back to the camera while petting a horse on sale at Hollywood Vintage

A view of trees towering overhead beneath a blue sky in Tryon Forest

Closeup of baling wire in loops around a bale of recyclable cardboard

American Beauty berries

A faux rose bush

Peeling light blue paint on a fence mural

Shapes, colors and textures

A picture of my living room - television on top of recording shelves with vases of flowers, a yoga mat on the floor, closet door with a latch hook wall hanging of an owl - and beams of sunlight shining on all of it.

The sunlight was streaming in through my living room windows and I found it breathtaking.

A foggy, rainy view of Portland and the Willamette river

A painted concrete traffic barrier that reads “Let’s Bring Love Back”

A sign for the Northeast Community Center that reads “ALL BODIES ARE GOOD BODIES”

A sunny view from my apartment after a day of constant rain.

A lovely sunset over the hills of Portland

A hand painted sign that reads “There’s always a rainbow after a storm. No matter how long it takes!” And it has a rainbow painted on it.

A really cute white and grey kitty perched on a tan welcome mat

And inflatable Christmas Hello Kitty lawn decoration

Today’s walk

Clock tower with the words “GO BY TRAIN” in huge light up letters

Selfie of me in a maroon dress with peach-pink floral accents and featuring a necklace, earrings and bracelets that all belonged to my mom

A squirrel sitting butt-to-camera on my fence

Selfie featuring silver earrings with amethyst stones that belonged to my mom

Some vaguely occult graffiti

A row of brightly collared orange and green train cargo cars

An old painted ad for Albers buckwheat flower featuring a peacock

A painted electric box covered in roses and the words “A rose is a rose is a rose” from the Gertrude Stein poem.

Billboard advertising Jesus as a cure for anxiety. Suuuuure.

Fantastic painted owl in the window of a store

Hilariously ridiculous Thanos flower pot

Christmas lawn display featuring one Santa out in the open and one inside a bubble because I assume he has some rare condition which prohibits him from being exposed to open air

Photographic evidence of my 8th grade graduation outfit that I have long referred to as “Duckie from ‘Pretty In Pink’ meets new wave maître d.”

My mom holding me when I was a baby

My dad holding me on his shoulder when I was a baby

Baby me and my aunt Sandy

Me and I think a babysitter. I’m in a little bath basin.

Photos of bebe me from an album my cousin sent me. The ashtray full of cigarette butts only a few inches away from my little basin is so painfully 70s.

A single photo from booth strip of me kissing my mom on the cheek and she’s smiking

My cousin Kathy sent me a box of my mom’s stuff from when she was at the nursing home and this was among them 🥹

A vintage Pepsi clock I’m gonna buy for a friend for Xmas.

My Dolly Parton themed look for today

A bouquet of flowers I put together at work

Enjoying seeing the colors of sunset during this endlessly grey season in Portland

Hey remember how I do music sometimes? @magiclassomusic.bsky.social

I can resist photos of oil slicks and their many colors. Makes me want to try to replicate them with eye makeup.

Periwinkle blue writing on the burnt umber railing of a bridge that reads “Keep smiling it will get better I promise.”

A view of a structure of three cubes built of wooden blanks with two cubes of concrete blocks balanced on top with the sun shining behind them.

Gorgeous view of the Willamette River with a blue sky and fluffy clouds

A view from N Portland late at night with a rain-wet street.

Love the silver Chucks! 🤩

A plastic Halloweensksleton sitting jauntily with one leg up on a red chair in someone’s front lawn

Closeup of an orange and yellow dahlia

Aloe featuring black frame glasses, a leopard print tshirt with ringer collar, denim jacket covered in pins and some lovely autumn sunshine

A sidewalk sign of a cartoon sloth holding a sign that reads “PLEASE DON’T PEE ON MY FAVORITE CLIMBING TREE.”

Closeup of a Harlequin Gloryblower

A hand drawn sign that reads “NO CELL PHONES” with a drawing of an old school cell phone with a red ban sign through it

A gorgeous dahlia garden in someone’s front yard

A selfie featuring black glasses, sparkly red eyeshadow, cherry earrings and black collared shirt with a hammered gold tone necklace

A red sulphur cosmos flower

A plastic Halloween skeleton of a flamingo standing on one leg in someone’s garden

An inflatable Halloween in iron with a bright pink mane and visible skeleton

Overhead view of my green Converse framing a bright pink journal with the word “Valentine” written on it in marker

A fountain bursting forth with water

A spooky baby doll with blacked out eyes and a maroon gown hanging from a wooden fence in a front yard Halloween scene

A 12 foot skeleton with a flower crown in a front yard. (I have always called this skeleton ‘Skelana Del Rey.’)

Overhead view of my green Converse sneakers as I stand on a patch of grass scattered with red maple leaves

Small plastic pink flamingo on a lawn

A cluster of sunflowers

A duo chromatic plastic spider in purple and aquamarine hanging from a porch

Closeup of a butterfly bush

A skeleton perched on a staircase wearing a tshirt that reads “WAITING ON THE EPSTEIN FILES LIKE”

Plastic gravestones on a lawn that read “BEA BAAACK-LATER” and “COLIN SICK”

Gorgeous red maple tree

A pale cream colored rose with bright pink edges

Closeup of a spruce

A sugar maple tree with bright red and orange leaves

Closeup of a pokeweed branch

Rich, dark fuchsia dahlias with yellow centers

Bright orange and yellow dahlia

Peach and bright orange dahlias

Bright red dahlias

A cluster of red holly berries

A gorgeous fuscia dahlia

Multicolored ceramic tiles on a garden bed

Multicolored ceramic tiles on a garden bed

A cute tabby kitty peeking out of some plants

A hand painted sign that says ‘SLOW DOWN!’ With a cartoonish lizard on top

A striped kitty sitting on a garden wall wearing sn invisible fence collar

A squirrel in a tall tree

A mini haunted house/graveyard display on a tree stump

A garden with plastic skeleton hands that have colorfully painted nails sticking out of the ground

Plastic Halloween gravestones sticking out of a step-style garden

Two skeletons - one dressed as a bride holding another dressed as a groom like it’s their wedding night

A picture of the St. John’s Bridge shot from a park in Portland, OR

Paintings of Betty Boop as Bride of Frankenstein and a witch on the window of Mis Tacones restaurant.

Paintings of Betty Boop as a mermaid and made up for Dia de Los Muertos on the window of Mis Tacones restaurant.

Paintings of Betty Boop as a zombie rising from the grave on the window of Mis Tacones restaurant.

A hand painted sign on brown paper stapled to a telephone pole that reads “I’ll pay Tom Homan $50,000 to stay out of Portland.”

A drawing on white paper stapled to a telephone pole of a multticoored, stylized face with purple, orange, pink and turquoise elements.

A drawing on white papers stapled to a telephone pole of a multticoored, stylized face with light blue, purple, peach and light green elements.

A cream colored concrete wall with two graffiti pieces: one that reads ‘Eradicate Corporations’ and another that reads ‘I love u’

A picture of a pitcher of water next a cucumber like mocktail that made me say “Oh! Heavenly!” out loud to myself 🤣

An outdoor diagrams perched on a rock featuring Scrabble tiles, toys and figurines.

A really big plastic skull for sale at Walgreens

A mural of California wildflowers on a wooden fence