Yesterday, in the beautiful afternoon sun, I went for a walk with my pal, Greg, in southwest Portland.
We started, as we often do, at one of his restaurants, the Corbett Fish House (hey, that's me in that photo there!).
We went down to the walkway along the Willamette River and headed south, through Willamette Park and on down along the railroad line to the Sellwood Bridge. We crossed Highway 43 and went up the hill to the Riverview Cemetery -- founded by some of Portland's early big shots. Many of them are interred there, also.
It's a beautiful, sprawling cemetery, and the weather was terrific. We wandered around the grounds for quite a while. We even stopped to see the grave of Virgil Earp, which was festooned with flags and homemade tributes (!). Here's a photo of it:
Just as we were leaving the cemetery, I noticed this stack of what looked like someone's schoolwork, being held in place by a rock.
My guess is that someone found this stack of papers and, as a kindness, placed it up off the ground and held it steady with a stone, in case the rightful owner happened to retrace their steps.
I resisted the urge to look through the papers -- it wasn't quite clear to me what kind of homework it is. Yes, I thought about the possible "good find" if the papers included some personal notes or some revealing tidbits of human nature.
But it seemed somehow wrong to interfere with whatever was going on there. And it's not really my nature to be all that nosy. I took some close-up shots, so there may some clues... something familiar to somebody somewhere.
