Monday, December 15, 2008

we get excited when it snows in portland

(an alternative title for this post is "yes, elyssa, you will need to bring your long underwear")


Corey and I went for a little walk around our neighborhood Sunday afternoon to explore our new snow world. I was surprised by how rural and out-of-the-way it looks with snow everywhere.


The titular duck pond, frozen over.


I'm glad I don't live in Minnesota.


The 'burbs.


Some brave souls sledding.


Attention, all the funemployed: the Christmas tree farm is now hiring.


I can't decide if the giant cut-out Asian Santa at the Christmas tree farm is amazing or just a tiny bit terrifying.


Lots of snow-covered groves of trees and forest in the neighborhood.


What were these? Deer prints? Paw prints of a weird-footed dog? Shoe prints of a little kid wearing a really weird shoe? A disoriented peccary?


A picturesque holly from the Aquifoliaceae family.


You are not supposed to eat the snow.


I thought the sky looked really pretty when I took this photo. It's of the onion field near our house.


Walking home on the Narnia-like pathway.


Duck pond minus the likely very surprised and perturbed ducks.


Duck pond estates.


View from the living room window.