Il neige!

It’s not impossible that I just wrote, in French, that it is snowing. Or possibly I just invited you all over for a swim party. We may never know.

For nine days, the Hood River Valley has been locked in an inversion. Every morning it has been 30⁰, warming up to 31⁰ in the afternoon, before plummeting to 29⁰ overnight. Not bad weather really, just totally unimaginative. It has been enough to sap the enthusiasm out of even the most festive person.

Just to rub salt in the wound, we have heard again and again:
It’s 60⁰ and sunny in Portland. It’s 60⁰ and sunny in Newport. In Bend it will be 60⁰ and sunny today. In every known place in the world it will be 60⁰ and sunny, except Hood River, where it will be 31⁰ and friggin’ cloudy.

But it finally has broken. Look, fresh snow and blue skies.