Reflections

Today, Saturday July 22, the low was 74 degrees F.  This is the highest "low" ever here.  It was 94 degrees here, but it was some 11 degrees warmer yesterday, and the humidity was well over 50%.

Yesterday, it was at least 104, or 39 degrees C, according to a bank sign I saw.

We Portlanders suffer in weather like this – it is very atypical of our usual July weather.  It is projected to be 99 tomorrow at the airport, but since the airport is up by the Columbia River, temperatures are projected at higher levels elsewhere.  It’s a good bet that it’ll be at least one hundred here in Sellwood, near Milwaukie.

At the moment I’m writing this, it is 88 in my apartment, despite the fan sitting in the sliding glass door on the balcony, blowing inwards.

I have lived in central Arizona and southern Nevada (just 80 minutes north of Las Vegas), where the daytime temps sometimes never got below 100 for weeks on end, so I have some perspective, but, gee, it doesn’t make me any cooler. 

Dammit.

Of all the used cars I have owned, this minivan is the only one that the air-conditioner has ever worked on, and I’m not being shy about using it.  Unbelieveably (to me, anyway), I used to have a thng against such "luxury" things like automobile air-conditioning, and have taken the A/C out of some of those used cars I’ve owned. 

(My wife’s car, a 1983 Mercury Zephyr had A/C that worked very well….)

I picked up my 294 papers this morning, the Sunday first editions, and ran my dozen or so stops with the A/C going most of the time, when I had more than a few blocks between stops, that is.  As I said in a previous entry, I wore as little as discreetly possible – maybe that’s why some of those Korean shop owners/workers (women) chatted me up?  I can only dream, fantasize, imagine, lol.

It’s my night off.  I’ll be able to sleep in the dark, a fairly rare event for me these days.

Ok, enough babbling away for me.  Lets see some art shots from my day on Johnson Creek on Friday evening, shall we?

Reflections

It has hardly rained at all for a month or more, and Johnson Creek, which originates on Mt. Hood, and runs past our homes on it’s way to Milwaukie, just a mile or so that way, (points south), is very low.

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It is difficult to make out the tree which fell across the creek this spring, isn’t it?

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(more, of course)