Marcus Mundy, Charlene McGee and me.  If we look cold, it's because it was 22 degrees at this work party for the African Women's Coalition/Urban League's Urban garden at North Beech/Albina in February.  I helped put out the cardboard, then vamoosed (I'd promised my staff I wouldn't stay, since I was getting over pneumonia, but I felt like a wimp).  A dozen hardier volunteers worked all morning putting down lime and compost, and building raised bed containers to prepare a vacant lot for gardening this year.  Those folks are truly dedicated.  I'm hoping for warmer weather for the planting party in April.

Photograph courtesy of Kyle Weismann-Yee, Communications Associate. Advocacy and Civic Engagement Department, Urban League of Portland.