| | Description | Date |
| As the storm today was getting started, I looked out my window and saw one of my resident raccoons scrambling among the branches. I took this shot out of my office window. | 12/20/2008 |
| Where's Waldo? Or more accurately, where's the raccoon? Look very closely near the middle of the photo and you'll see him. | 12/20/2008 |
| And here he is watching me. | 12/20/2008 |
| At this point we had gotten aound 5 inches or so of snowfall. Look closely at the branch in the middle of the photo above and to the left of the edge of the railing. Compare it to a similar shot that I took tomorrow morning, Branch3.jpg. | 12/20/2008 |
| Here's the snow covered trees behind my house. The one in the foreground is a cedar, the other taller ones are Douglas Firs. Those particular one are actually in my neighbor's yard. | 12/20/2008 |
| Looking down the street while the snow is falling heavily. | 12/20/2008 |
| And looking back at the house in the heavy snow. | 12/20/2008 |
| In this shot, you can really see the house, trees, and heavy snow. | 12/20/2008 |
| This cedar is actually in my neigbor's yard, but it's beautiful in the snow. | 12/20/2008 |
| It was a nowy night in Tualatin. I have no idea what that object was that looks like the moon at the top of the photo. There's no way the moon was out here, it was snowing very heavy all day. | 12/20/2008 |
| Here's Alix's car at night in the heavy snow. I love the way the snowflakes appeared in this shot. | 12/20/2008 |
| These icicles are hanging from my neighbor's roof. I am looking through my courtyard to their house. | 12/20/2008 |
| Another shot of the back yard in the snow. If you look closely you can see the branch again here, and compare it to the same branch in the next shot taken the next morning. | 12/20/2008 |
| Looking at my deck at night during the snowstorm. | 12/20/2008 |
| Here the snow looks like stars. But it's just more heavy snow. | 12/20/2008 |
| Overnight we got half an inch of ice on top of the 8.75 inches of snow. All the branches were heavily weighed down. That same branch seen in two other shots is now bent to the ground. You can also see my birdfeeder through the rails, and it was resting on the ground instead of hanging several feet off the ground. | 12/21/2008 |
| Here's my street the morning after the storm. Or at least the initial wave of precipitation from the storm. We got more later in the day. Tualatin and other Portland area towns don't get this weather often, and therefore don't have the equipment or budget to deal with it. They never plow the neighberhood streets, just the major streets. So our block will look like this all week until we get warm weather next weekend. | 12/21/2008 |
| Looking through my courtyard to my neighbor's house. Even here in the courtyard enough snow fell through the small opening to accumulate to a sizable depth. | 12/21/2008 |
| The front garden in the snow and ice. | 12/21/2008 |
| You can sort of get a sense of the snow depth in this shot, with the mounds of snow. | 12/21/2008 |
| The lock and door here on Alix's car are frozen shut. | 12/21/2008 |
| One of the piles of snow and ice after I shoveled the driveway. This was by far the biggest storm sinceI have lived in Tualatin. Most times when it snows I don't even bother to shovel, I know it will be gone in a day or two when it warms up. But this time it was too deep and more snow and ice was in the forecast. | 12/21/2008 |
| Another shot of the same pile of snow. | 12/21/2008 |
| And here's the pile of snow I made next to my mailbox. | 12/21/2008 |
| My mailbox totally covered in snow, even high enough to cover all the numbers on the side. The street also is snow covered, and you can't even see my vegetable garden. | 12/22/2008 |
| My backyard, with the wight of the snow and ice causing all the branches to droop, some of them down onto the ground. | 12/22/2008 |
| This is a yardstick, showing that the pile of snow is well over three feet high, probably close to four feet. | 12/22/2008 |
| From down the block, this is a great photo of the snow covered trees behind my house. You can also see many cars on the street that nobody was bothering to shovel, since nobody could get anywhere anyway. | 12/23/2008 |
| It's a little blurry, but Alix and I went for a brief snowshoeing journey. Here's Alix walking down 86th Avenue. | 12/23/2008 |
| And here are some of the many branches that littered my yard once they all started falling. Fortunately I didn't suffer any real damage. | 12/24/2008 |
| My mom after relaxing on my deck the day we got back from Yachats. | 9/30/2008 |
| One of the raccoons coming home later in the morning than usual (around 11:00 AM) | 7/3/2008 |
| Here's the space under the deck where the raccoons go in and out. During they day they sleep under my deck, and each evening they come out to do whatever it is they do each night. They come back in the morning to spend the day under the deck sleeping. | 7/3/2008 |
| Here's Mazama watching intently as the raccoons come out from underneath the deck. | 7/3/2008 |
| Alix and I walked over the new bridge in Tualatin park to watch the fireworks in Cook Park on July 4. Here I am waiting on a fence for the fireworks to begin | 7/4/2008 |
| No, that's not my child! This is Adam with Elijah, Alix's grandson, on St. Patrick's Day 2008. He was just over one month old when this was taken. (Elijah, not Adam). | 3/15/2008 |
| The entryway to my house as decorated before Halloween. | 10/27/2007 |
| These are the four Oregon Grape plants that I planted this fall in memory of Halli. Hopefully they'll start growing in the spring, and eventually block the fence a bit. | 10/27/2007 |
| The Jack-O-Lantern that we had on our mailbox for Halloween this year. | 10/27/2007 |
| Here's the Jack-O-Lantern all lit up at night. | 10/27/2007 |
| Some home decorations for Halloween. | 10/27/2007 |
| A Swallowtail butterfly in my Butterfly Bush in my front garden. | 7/6/2007 |
| We had a few really nice sunsets during June. For this one, I tried to take a few shots. | 6/16/2005 |
| Another sunset photo. They came out pretty good. | 6/16/2005 |
| These were all taken from my front doorstep... | 6/16/2005 |
| ... which explains the less than ideal foreground images. | 6/16/2005 |
| Oh well, it was still quite a sunset. | 6/16/2005 |
| Another sunset shot. | 6/16/2005 |
| This one really shows the color through the pinte trees across the street. | 6/16/2005 |
| One final shot, with the trees slightly out of focus. | 6/16/2005 |
| Our Clematis vine in the our entryway did well this year. | 5/4/2005 |
| Another shot of the clematis. It was actually doing better a week or so earlier, but I forgot to take a picture until this. | 5/4/2005 |
| Yet another shot of our garden, the first one for this year. | 5/4/2005 |
| A Swallowtail butterfly in our garden, conveniently perched on "Butterfly Bush". | 7/15/2004 |
| Another shot of the butterfly. | 7/15/2004 |
| A view of our front garden from the roof. | 7/15/2004 |
| For all those who wondered what my weather station looks like, here it is. It's mounted up on the roof, from this angle you can see the solar panel (the dark rectangle directly under the anemometer) that powers it. This view is facing NE. | 7/15/2004 |
| Here's a view of the weather station facing south, with some nice Douglas Firs in the background. | 7/15/2004 |
| What a winter storm we had in early January 2004. Around 3 or 4 inches of snow, followed by about 3/4 inch of sleet/freezing rain. Since the temperatures stayed cold for a few days, nothing melted, and the city effectively shut down for 3 days. Winter weather is pretty unusual here. | 1/8/2004 |
| Another shot of the snow/icestorm. Note how our driveway is a sheet of ice. Also, since winter weather is unusual, there aren't many sanders and plows. As a result only main roads are maintained. Even a week after this storm hit, our street was still covered in snow because they don't plow or sand any neighborhood streets. | 1/8/2004 |
| A shot of our garden near the end of the year. | 9/5/2003 |
| Another shot of our garden near the end of the year, from our driveway. | 9/5/2003 |
| Our new garden during a mid-May hailstorm. Still quite a bit of planting to do. | 5/15/2003 |
| Another shot of this hailstorm. It was quite torrential for a good 10-15 minutes. | 5/15/2003 |
| A photo of what our front lawn and garden looked like before we had it excavated and redone. | 9/10/2002 |
| Another "Before" shot of our front yard. | 9/10/2002 |
| The work on our front has begun. Note the wall in the front has been knocked down. | 9/10/2002 |
| The work has now begun in earnest. You can see the beginning of a new retaining wall in the front. | 9/20/2002 |
| Halli admires the beginning of our new front patio. It appears we also had a four-legged creature checking it out as well. | 9/21/2002 |
| The next day. The retaining wall is almost complete here. | 9/21/2002 |
| More progress on the yard. The retaining wall is now complete. | 9/22/2002 |
| The patio is now just about complete. | 9/24/2002 |
| The earth moving is now just about done. Here you can see the paths that we will have running thought the garden. Now if we just had some plants! | 9/25/2002 |
| Here is our house before we painted it last year. | 8/1/2001 |
| And here it is after we had it painted. | 8/15/2001 |
| Halli's vegetable garden. | 8/15/2001 |
| Another shot of Halli's veggie garden. | 8/15/2001 |
| And one more of the veggie garden. | 8/15/2001 |