A leprechaun colony, the world's smallest park and some Hibernian horticulture are intertwined, blending in Portland, Oregon. It all started when Dick # returned from World War II. As a journalist at the daily Oregon Journal, he was sitting at his desk alongside a second-floor window one day in the downtown Jackson Tower at Broadway and Yamhill, Portland. A circular hole in the median below caught his eye. Meant to receive a light standard which had never arrived, it was now overgrown with weeds.