This is Arthur McClain shoveling snow. I have only a guess for a date of this photo: that it was probably in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

I don’t specifically recognize the building in the background. It isn’t the McClain residence in Tallman, but nevertheless I imagine this is somewhere on the Tallman farm. This looks like a significant amount of snow, for the floor of the Willamette Valley. Not necessarily record-setting, but still significant.

Especially if this was in the 1940s, I imagine dealing with this snow was just one of many hints that Arthur would soon be physically unable to keep up the farm. It was this realization that led Arthur and Addie to make plans (reluctantly, on Arthur’s part) to sell the farm and move into Lebanon. They were in the process of moving in April 1947 when Arthur was killed in a accidental fall.