While I’m on vacation, I thought I’d leave you with vacation-y posts. Here’s one from the Southern Sierra. If you haven’t walked over the Great Western Divide or the Whitney Crest, you may not realize that between these two rather intimidating mountain ranges, in the middle of an enormous valley at roughly 9,000 feet, liesContinue reading “Black Kaweah”
Category Archives: the land
ON VACATION — BACK IN AUGUST
I’ll put up a few musical posts saved up over the past couple of months, but be back with increased vigor on the first weekend in August…check me then.
Missing the Fog
It’s been just insanely hot here in SoCal: 108 yesterday in Ojai. It’s times like this that I miss the fogs of the Bay Area, which sooner or later would always come in…the woodcut artist Tom Killion, who grew up in my neck of the woods, knows how to portray the wonders of that oceanicContinue reading “Missing the Fog”
A Mote of Dust, Suspended in a Sunbeam
Carl Sagan’s great piece on the "pale blue dot" where we have lived and will live; yesterday, today, and tomorrow. (h/t: Dot Earth)
Enjoying the May Grey
Forecasts say it won’t last much longer this week, with interior valley temps in SoCal expected to climb into the 80’s and even the 90’s by Wednesday. (Some uncertainty remains in the forecast, but a high is expected to build that will end the onshore flow, I regret to report.) Enjoy it while it lasts,Continue reading “Enjoying the May Grey”
Sierra Snowpack Low: Drought Stalks California
According to officials quoted by The Los Angeles Times this weekend (here). "I have not seen a more serious water situation in my career, and I’ve been doing this 30 years," said Timothy Quinn, executive director of the Assn. of California Water Agencies. An outmoded delivery system and court rulings that protect endangered fish areContinue reading “Sierra Snowpack Low: Drought Stalks California”
Being with the Trees (Sunday Morning on the Planet)
A commentator on a previous post asked for more poems about trees…here’s one I just found, courtesy of The Atlantic, by somebody named Robert Frost. This one seeps into a person, like its subject…. The Sound of Trees I wonder about the trees: Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these MoreContinue reading “Being with the Trees (Sunday Morning on the Planet)”
The 2007-2008 La Nina: Coldest in A Decade
A nice chart by NASA of seasonal temperature anomalies, via Climate 411 and Environmental Defense, succinctly makes a point about the cold winter we just experienced, which is that the cold temps of the past couple of months…would have been normal just twenty-five years ago. For more, see the short but unusually informative post byContinue reading “The 2007-2008 La Nina: Coldest in A Decade”
Snow in SoCal: Gotta See It Personally
It’s a winter ritual — off to touch the SoCal snow. I’ll have to be lucky to come back with a picture as good as this one from analog chainsaw.
Sisar Creek Roars Again
Love the sound of a rushing creek, the sight of cascading water. So clean, so fresh, so raw. Thanks to photographer neighbor Scott Whitman for the pic.
Kit Stolz 