Portland, Ore.

They always say the best camera is the one you have with you, right?

I don't always have my DSLR with me -- OK, I rarely have my DSLR with me -- but my phone? Always.

My friend Jen and I took a quick vacation to Portland this month, and I snapped these and uploaded them to Instagram.

Pardon the the gruesome ones; one of our stops was to Portland's Pecularium, a novelty shop that bills itself as a museum of oddities. (For the record, it's kitschy, DIY and delightful, and I bought a book there that was illustrated by Columbus native Thom Lessner.)