Dear Liza,
I am going to take a break from telling about your visit to talk about our snow today. We woke up at 7:00 and saw this out our window:
Our beautiful, tall dogwood, which is almost ready to burst into bloom, was weighed down by more than an inch of snow. This is the first time Portland has had measurable snowfall in April…. in the 82 years the city has been keeping track of such things. This is historically nutsy weather!
While we were sitting on the couch doing French lessons, we heard a bang! bang! from outside and looked out, expecting the worst. But it was the best! Stacy from across the way had seen the problem and found a solution, a nice long 2 by 4. She whacked the tree trunk, the snow fell off, and the tree straightened right up. What a relief!
In other parts of the neighborhood, some trees weren’t as lucky. Many lost branches and this one lost its footing in the saturated soil and just leaned right over, landing on the car parked in the driveway.
Things were better in my vegetable garden. Yesterday, thanks to Auntie Bridgett’s help and a bunch of leftover plasticware, my young cucumbers, zucchinis, lettuces and pumpkins were shielded from the snow.
As of now, the ones we were able to cover have survived!
Of course, we are still in the middle of this weird spring storm. We are expecting more snow in the next day or two, and temperatures down near freezing. We put the covers back on and will have to wait and see and hope for warm sunshine soon.
Love,
Grandma Judy
Dear Liza 
we have to shake off the pine trees in our driveway each year, they bend way down when it snows… Fortunately Pine trees are very flexible and usually bounce back up… but we have occasionally lost a few limbs… Is that an overview shot of the community gardens? I like seeing that, thanks!
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Yes, the community garden was so beautiful with the snow. My make-shift greenhouses of plastic ware have been successful, so far. Everything is still alive. Fingers crossed!
Sent from my iPad
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