Photos: Life in Oregon

Claire Druker, 6, center, waits with her parents, Brian and Alex Druker, to see the koi that was named after her at the Japanese Garden in Portland, Ore., Sunday Aug. 19, 2012. Donors, contributing fifteen or twenty-five hundred dollars per fish depending on their size and markings, together with other Japanese Garden visitors turned out to celebrate the introduction of 23 new koi into the Garden's Lower Pond on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Faith Cathcart)