Coasting.1
We begin a new series today – images I’ve started collecting along the shores of the Pacific here on the west coast of North America. I expect to leave these shores for a distant continent around July, for a quite extended period…so we begin now my own loving homage to an ocean and a coastline I truly love. Watch the categories and tags, because I’ll be moving around with this series.
This intro photo is from the mouth of the Coquille River on the lovely coastline of Oregon, the next state north of California. For those unfamiliar with the distances involved, that means from my current perch in the north bay, it’s “only” 400 miles or a 7-1/2 hour drive away…
County Views.106 – Wet & Dry #2
County Views.103 – Wet & Dry #1
For a while, I’ve wanted to show some side-by-side photos of the wet and dry seasons here in Sonoma County. Folks who haven’t been to California, or who grew up in temperate zones where rain can fall any month in the year find it hard to imagine how huge is the difference between our usual April, and our usual October. This year, it’s unusually start because we had frighteningly little rain this past rainy season. So little rain that our hills are already going brown, weeks or months before they would in a usual year. The image just above was taken less than six weeks after the top left shot – and in case you can’t tell, this is the same hill from pretty much the same angle. The other two photos above are also from roughly the same place, taken less than six weeks apart. The dry ones were shot on May 14; the wetter ones the first weekend in April. And it’s in an area that’s burned twice since 2017. And, um, rain is extremely unlikely between now and at least October. Draw your own conclusions, and wish us luck getting through to the next rainy season without too much new fire stress…. 
(so much world, so little time....) 