Did anyone else besides me notice the strange resemblance that Portland had last week to Narnia, where it's always winter, but never Christmas? It just seemed to snow and snow and snow. Here at Rose Villa everyone turned out to help shovel snow. This is Louis with his mom in the background, and yes he did indeed do more then just throw that snowball. He helped his dad shovel snow off the sidewalks. Good lad.

At my house it was a measured 17 inches deep and I think it was that deep at Rose Villa as well.

If you look real close you can see the humming bird feeders. My wife put 'hats' of cardboard box lids over them to keep the snow off the feeding stations. She still had to keep bringing them inside to thaw out every few hours. In the 'snowy' photo the hats have cones of snow on them.

The last time it snowed as bad as this was way back in the early 1980's. Back when I had just started working here as the grounds boss. Now I am happy to say it was the new grounds boss, Bob who had to spend hours and hours, day after day moving snow around. He spent at least 6 or 7 days on snow patrol and when I talked to him just yesterday he was tired and worn out, but to his credit still upbeat and cheerful. Of course that could have been because the snow had melted by then. Here's a photo of a beautiful birch tree with a small yellow snow plow in the back ground.

And finally, what's an article about snow without a photo of icicles? These were off the laundry building roof.

And that's it for now, the snow has melted away, the temperature is above freezing and it's raining. Just like it is supposed to be in Oregon.