Judging Rose Festival Floats Multnomah Stadium Portland Oregon Frame Style:Verdigris Frame with the composed gravity of

with the composed gravity of a man who knew posterity was already taking notes

Oregon Timber arrives in stands of Douglas fir towering over the loggers dwarfed at their bases

grandstands rising against a backdrop of pine-dark hills and the brick smokestacks of the Inland Empire's rail town

The Astronomer's Vigil Uranus Neptune Orbital Study charts the two outermost wanderers in the Victorian firmament — Herschel's pale discovery and Leverrier's mathematical ghost

The word Late does the heaviest lifting — a single adjective announcing a republic suddenly without its steward

Judging Rose Festival Floats Multnomah Stadium Portland Oregon Frame Style:Verdigris Frame with the composed gravity ofJudging 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, June crowds packed into the grandstands, and judges leaning close as Portland's signature roses spill in fragrant cascades. A pageant of civic pride and summer color caught in linen finish postcards from the rail and roses era. About the Source Bella Frye curates American