| | 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 |
| 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 |
| A closeup of the hole in the roof where the lightning punched through. | 11/24/2004 |
| After the lightning came through the roof, it turned in towards the house and punched a small hole into this room. Fortunately nobody was in the room at the time, so nobody got hurt. | 11/24/2004 |
| A shot of someone going up to check out the damage to the roof. | 11/24/2004 |
| A more zoomed out shot to give you a relative sense of what happened. | 11/24/2004 |