This would be a cool story of me going the extra mile or 3 for a shot, but it turned out I was dumb. Okay, not dumb, just lacking info. The only high quality shot of The Martini I'd seen was taken from a high rise condo, so I thought it wasn't easily visible from downtown Portland. Since I couldn't get a location online I walked into the hills for hours, steep wet roads. I did find the house!

The Martini being lit up has been a sign of the impending holiday season in Portland since the 60s or 70s, the articles I've ready vary.

But right below the house is a terrible vantage point, and I got rain on my lens:


Actually, I kinda like the shot? Anyway, as I made my way back down to the flat bit of Portland with mass transit I was looking for better vantage points... and I realized that it's easily visible from a few blocks just south of PSU.



But, I walked some sections of Portland I don't normally walk and found this house clearly owned by vampires:

And here I'm writing vampires in Portland being dug into Alameda Ridge when they are clearly in the West Hills.