Today's no walk report: 020119

Starting tonight, Friday, February the 1st, at 10 PM, here's a part of our upcoming weather situation. This is as far ahead as I can check hourly weather right now. That's 38 hours shown below. The current prediction is for rain into Tuesday. This is a bitter sweet situation. On one side we're in a drought and on the other hand we have flooding in the areas affected by 2018 wildfires.

Today's walk report: 020214

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”
~Paulo Coelho~

Today I felt both love and rain. It was a beautiful day and it's not over yet.

Today's walk report: 100913

Rain.

We had rain today! .15" which brings our seasonal total up to .18". That is NOT very good. But it was great today! Just for comparison, last year we got an early storm on 10/11-10/12 and that dropped  .61".

Anyway, the house was 64º today, the air was clean and the energy was high. I even put some wildflower seed out just in front of the house, about a 150 sq ft area. Since it's supposed to get back into the mid-80ºs by Monday I didn't want to push too much early seeding. This area I can easily keep watered until the seed has a chance to germinate.

I did the regular 8.25 km (5.13 miles) southbound neighborhood walk and was really digging the cool fresh air, the gentle breeze and the fact that I could wear a light weight hoodie again. I like the front pocket, it's really handy especially when I walk with a DSLR and a couple of lenses. I'm looking forward to more of this.

Today's walk report: 062413

10% chance of rain tonight.

Or so they say. If there's any weather condition I really look forward to it's rain. Whatever the outcome, cloudy skies today made for a productive day in the yard. Temps were in the low 70s.

As far as the walk went it was a typically fast Monday boogie, same 8.79 km as usual.

I did pause for a picture of this menacing looking beast of an insect. This large black wasp, which just happens to be called, Large Black Wasp (Chalybion californicum), has this intimidating sort of nervous looking twitching behavior which made my hovering the camera 8" above the thing challenging. It took off right after this shot. I went the other direction.

Here's a little video I did in March of 2011 of a snail in the rain. Yes, it's as exciting as it sounds. The music is a piano exercise by Béla Bartók.