Robins, warm weather, idles of Spring. Gone! Today was a rip roaring 19 degrees as I left home to report for jury duty. I think if I didn’t have windows that look out on the street, I would mis-clothe myself for the weather. When in the early morning I see the dog walkers hunkered down …
Category Archives: Weather
Sign of Spring
At first, I only heard him, and then I saw him. The herald of Spring
More Clouds and Scenes
On the drive to the Coast. The mostly two lane road is often a corridor of pines. – in the early morning fog. The sun then breaks through and the winding road continues past orchards or adjacent to river and stream beds …
54 Degrees
Perhaps that is really what makes the TV show Portlandia work. It really is nuts here. A week ago it was freezing and a foot of snow on the ground. Tonight being outside was close to being balmy. Really messes with one’s mind. At least the City is socked in, and consistently cold and miserable. …
An Expert
Am becoming one about the weather. Schools were still closed here today, and nothing much in the way of snow, disappeared over night, so decided that around 1 pm would start the digging out process. I actually like shoveling snow. Hate vacuuming, but snow shoveling is satisfying because you can see what you have accomplished. …
Fading Fast
Not the snow, but my belief that this will be gone enough in 24 hours from the time of these photos last night, for this city to function on Monday. I am holding my breath.
Cold
and dry. Portland I am told is in the grips of a dry spell! Who makes these statements up? It hasn’t rained for a few days in winter and it is a dry time?
Minding Your Own Business
and then it appears!
Faith
There is a reason that religious belief is so prevalent in the Portland area. It is easier to have faith in an unseen God than to have faith you will see the sun again.
Last Night
This is how one of the streets in the Village looked last evening. Mid June.