Photos: Life in Oregon

Adam Hart, senior gardener at Portland Japanese Garden, readies to help transfer a koi into its new home Sunday Aug. 19, 2012, at the Japanese Garden in Portland, Ore. 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 Carthcart)