Here's news to make our short winter days seem a little longer. They've announced four of the five Sunday Parkways events for this coming spring and summer in Portland. They are:

May 16 - Northeast - connecting Wilshire, Fernhill, Alberta, and Woodlawn Parks

June 27 - North - connecting Peninsula, Arbor Lodge, and Kenton Parks

July 18 - East - connecting Lents and Ed Benedict Parks (coinciding with the East Portland Exposition)

August 15 - Southeast - connecting Col. Summers, Laurelhurst, and Sunnyside Parks (coinciding with the Hawthorne Street Fair)

That May one up here our way could be pretty wet. I can't imagine that thousands of inexperienced cyclists on a wet track would end well, and so we had all better pray for dry.

After our second parkways excursion last summer, we decided that the route between the parks isn't particularly friendly if you aren't on a bicycle. But the scenes at the parks themselves are fun -- worth driving to, even.