December 2008 Portland Cold Snap - Part III

More snow pics from Tualatin Hills Nature Park, but from today after 3 more inches of snow last night:

December 2008 Portland Cold Snap - Part II

Snow off and on again through the week. Friday we had wet snow flakes falling with the sun struggling to get through.

Then Saturday the snow storm happened. I figure that I have 5 - 6 inches on my deck in the some of the lower parts with 7 - 8 inches in the ridge shown below at shortly before 9 pm.

But it's a dry snow. Here's my car. Hardly any snow on it, but it affects the wind pattern around it, so a snow drift was forming around it.

December 2008 Portland Cold Snap

I always thought it was ironic that there was a street called Winterlake Drive running along Summerlake Park in Tigard. As of December 14, 2008, Winter beat Summer. But it wasn't all snow this week. There was a bunch of wind as well.

This tree fell on Monday, December 15, 2008 (it is figured) on the wooden walkway on the Big Fir trail on the way to the Couger Trail (and Big Pond where I was heading) in Tualatin Valley Nature Park. There were no reports of any sounds as it fell because no one was around. The winds were howling that day. The park personnel I came across as they were checking the park for damage said that it wasn't down on Sunday and I came across it on Tuesday, ergo the estimate that it fell on Monday.

However, back to Summerlake Park and the frozen pond it was becoming.

That would be a nutriet walking across the lake. And here are some other pictures that I liked.