I have already posted a couple of pictures from Balch Creek Canyon in NW Portland here and here. What I haven’t told you is that I grew up a block away from that canyon. In the summer my friends and I would pack a lunch after breakfast and take off into the canyon on exciting and almost mythical adventures. Yes, there were dangers but dangers was what made it an adventure. There was an occasional black bear or even a cougar – we occasionally saw them but were really never threatened by them. After I grew older and returned from my 4 years in Munich, Germany I returned to Balch Creek Canyon with my cameras in hand and took pictures. Here is another, a black and white. I always liked black and white photography. Black and white is not the same in the digital age which makes me sad.