Photos: Life in Oregon

After being transferred to its new home, a Niigata koi swims past Adam Hart, senior gardener at Portland Japanese Garden Sunday Aug. 19, 2012 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 )