Winter Awakens

Everyone had been talking about how dry our winter was this year, until this week. That's all forgotten now. Like the teenager in the comic strip Zits who oversleeps every day, the Old Man's sound snooze ended this past Monday, when a brief snow storm visited the valley, to be followed by inches of good ol' Oregon rain. It's still falling today, though not as hard. Flood warnings and road closures are numerous.

For the second time this week I went out to shoot the weather shot, and found it right around the corner (speaking rurally), two miles away.

There was no water on this road yesterday.