Weekend Postcard: Lake County, California
Published by Norm Benson
My name is Norm Benson and I'm currently researching and writing a biography of Walter C. Lowdermilk. In addition to being a writer, I'm an avid homebrewer. I'm also a registered professional forester in California with thirty-five years of experience. My background includes forest management, fire fighting, law enforcement, teaching, and public information. View more posts
Nullius in Verba 
Hi Norm
I like the look of that burbling brook: all calm and quiet as if it had nothing to do with those boulders strewn about its bed!
K
Isn’t that the truth, Katharine!? We humans often see a place at one small shard in time and project that image forward and back in time, thinking it always looked and will look like that. But you’re quite right. Its quiescence belies its other nature. Nature never achieves balance. It’s always in flux, hydrologically, climatalogically, biologically. Adaptation and resilience are the only defenses.
But, it’s just a nice picture too.
Beautiful. It´s almost spring here too.
BTW, I didn´t get this one in my inbox 😛
Didn’t come through to your inbox? I am perplexed.
We’re getting snow pretty low right now (~600+ Meters), with rain at lake level (~400 meters). Rain forecast for the next week. Rain, rain, rain.
Ouch, I didn´t get your reply neither! (saw it when watching the Sunday Funny which was indeed in my inbox). This is quite strange 😦
Madrid is at 600-700 m. Most early Prunus, Forsythias, etc have passed full flowering. What are those pink bushes, Tamarix?
(you should be happy with rain; the lake won´t be emptied XP )
You are right on with tamarix (or tamarisk or salt cedar, etc).
No knowing why the announcements aren’t going out. I’ve upgraded the Subscribe2 to its latest version (and you are on the list). It is a puzzlement.
We are concerned about our pier. The water is just inches from the bottom cross beam and waves could break it apart. That happened a couple years ago. We raised it when we had it repaired (muy costoso) and we do not relish the thought of having to fix it again.
Other than that, we are quite glad that we will have water this year. California is always a little thirsty.
So, you have already seen your Spring come and go in Madrid? Some of the deciduous trees have not yet budded out, por ejemplo, los robles (Quercus) are about 50/50 budded and those yet to bud out.
Everything OK with your last reply 🙂
Don´t know what´s going on with oaks, too much concrete here. I should get out more, sigh…