Portland Surprise!

[dreamshark]

Portland just had its first snowfall of the season, to Lena's delight and her Daddy's dismay. He's from California and believes that when people tell you it never snows here past Valentine's Day that it actually means something. 

Lena and I built a table top snowman before breakfast. 





Sad little flowers peeking through the snow. They weren't expecting this either.

Comments

[quadong]

fantastic!

[davidwilford]

Love the table-top snowman!

[laramie]

What fun for Lena! (Love the shot of hyacinths in the snow.)

[dreamshark]

The snow melted, of course, and all the flowers recovered. Flowers are everywhere out here - it really is spring in Portland, just a somewhat unpredictable spring.

I'm impressed that you recognized them as hyacinths. They are something called "grape hyacinth," which are actually an invasive species out here. They infiltrate your lawn like Creeping Charlie, bloom and look gorgeous for about 3 weeks, and then spend the rest of the year looking like crab grass. But they are so exuberant when they bloom in early spring that it's hard not to root for them.