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Hey cool – my good friend Julianna Bright (of the Golden Bears) has her really, really great artwork  up on Etsy.

See her Etsy store here.

via PDX Writer Daily and Reading Local. Eulogy here. Very sad, a really great book store.

I remember seeing, among others, Jim Harrison read there — his book of poetry Letters to Yesenin was very influential on me at a time I needed it. 

23rd Ave Books will be missed.

A blizzard is characterized as having 25mph or above winds, blowing snow, a windchill of -13F and visibility of less than 5/8th of a mile.

Weather.gov has a warning for just such a thing here – yet the weather underground claims we haven’t quite hit that – though having just spent 10 minutes outside, I beg to differ. 

At any rate – having lost a tree earlier this week (we live next to a field, and all the wind seems to end up in our yard) we’re taking it seriously by making sure we have emergency supplies and a well-stocked alcohol cabinet.

Here are a few pics I took — hard to know the best way to take pics in this, as they look nothing like what I see with my eyes. 

(click a thumbnail for a larger view)

Portland weather can be pretty impressive. Certainly you’ve seen this:

We seem to be headed for the same weather in the next few days.

The ice is really amazing. I grew up in Spokane, WA which gets a decent amount of snow – but the ice in Portland is of a completely different level. Think of it like an entire city being coated in a solid inch of oil-covered glass. It’s that strong and that slippery. You can scarcely walk outside of your house.

Here are pics I took about 5 years ago:

Entitled: Rwriting on School Propty. 

Photographed at Rigler Elementary School.