Is it Spring?

The night before last we had a surprise here with a bit of Snow!  You will notice in the top picture that it is snowing with all the trees in bloom!!  At least it did not last long.  I was lucky and the sidewalks were warm enough the snow did not stick on them.   I'm hoping that we do not run into any snow on Friday.  We have to go to Salem for a couple meetings.  Lauries meeting starts at 9:00 AM so we will have to leave here by 4:30 am to be able to get there in time. Guess it means early to bed tonight.  Anyway after her meeting then I have one that starts at 12:40 pm  it should only last an hour or two so we should be able to get out of Salem and headed for home by 3:00 or so.  With any luck we will be back home by 7:00 or so.   I just hope the weather waits for us to be back home before it decides to do anything weird again. 
   We just never no what to expect these days.  With the Earthquake in Chile  the whole coastline here was put on alert for a tsunami.  Thankfully it did not materialize into much of anything. When I had to go to Lincoln City last week I was told by the people there that it had only caused a 3 foot rise in tide level. So it really had minimal effect.  For the most part they were having a higher tide while I was there.  We ( the boss, myself, and the management team from the property there) were having lunch at a  restaurant overlooking the beach and the D river wayside watching the ocean waves pound the beach when we noticed something we thought was a log being tossed in the water. When we noticed that it was a woman holding onto a child about 3 or 4 years old.  There was no way we could get to them but thankfully there were several men that also saw what was going on and dove in to save them.  It is a weird and helpless feeling seeing somethng like that happen and you are unable to get to them to offer help.  I am sure thankful that those guys were there and responded so quickly.  I think it pretty well shook all  of us in the restaurant.  The interesting thing was that the men rescued them and when they were sure they were safe and in the hands of others  they went on about their business like nothing happened.  In my book those three men were what I consider heros.  They were not looking for anything except to help someone in need.  It sort of restores my faith in human nature.