1. Snowflakes fell today in Portland, the first snow to fall on Christmas in 18 years, only the fifth time in 63 years. It didn’t stick below a few hundred feet and I live downtown, so I took the MAX a couple stops to the zoo which is 700 feet higher and enjoyed the winter wonderlandy atmosphere.




    As I’ve only seen snow a few times, and never before a few years ago this would technically be my first White Christmas, so I can scratch that off my list of things to experience.

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