Portland red and white

Snow

An unseasonably dry and warm winter in western Washington means we have to go to Snoqualmie Pass to see snow, and not very much at that. Still, it was cold enough to freeze Gold Creek Pond.

In Like a Lion

SEASON



Against a wish I snuck
out into the storm and stood
frigid minutes on a path
from shoppers to a calm
surprised by only me.

Descending snow screened off
sound and built its world
from night light and motion.
The latish hour seemed safe
though ghostly; the ravine
laid out in white and brown
showed where summer masks
the body of the land.

I waited for the right
touch (stop me if you've heard
this one) like a single
flake clasping to my eyelash.
I didn't think it came.

But here in early summer
as I watch dusk descend
that green disguise, I
catch the scent of what
drenched me, underhandedly,
in the snow. Which was, I think,
that I was trying. Trying
to gather from the patient world
punchlines from a blizzard
of stories. All I've come away with
is the drifted blossoms
only now beneath the cherry,
zinging me, zinging me.

- © Sean Bentley

Stormfall

This week's Theme Thursday and blackandwhiteweekend...

So, we had our annual January snowdump in Seattle. A lovely opportunity to see where the cats have been. And a few daring birds. And our kids.

Three Winters

Winter 2010-2011




Winter 2007




Winter 2008

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Unseasonable

Uncommonly blizzardish this week, and I ventured out for a neighborhood recon.


Steps



Vortex




Swerve




The fence