Light/Breezes

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SUNRISE AT DEATH VALLEY-Photo by Tom Cochrun

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Painted-Bone Dry and A Short Throw

ENCHANTED EVENING



   Marvelous summer sunsets are a California positive, helping us to survive historic drought.
IT HAPPENED BEFORE
    By 1863 the drought on the central California coast was so severe, ranchers drove starving and dehydrated cattle off bluffs into the Pacific. 
    Today ranchers have alternatives, including thinning herds. A recent walk brought all of this to mind

  It's difficult to see what the cattle may be grazing on.
DRY CREEK BEDS
   San Simeon Creek should be rushing through this. Now only traces of a flow.


  So now all of us, quadrupeds and bipeds adopt the attitude of the above lady-what's up?  In the meantime we wait for El Nino.
A FIVE YEAR THROW
    Five years ago this summer-the Journalism Hall of Fame induction. The ceremony was in a magnificent Tudor hall in one of the historic buildings on the campus of Indiana University which now houses the Hall of Fame in the Ernie Pyle Center.
  You can link here to learn more about the particulars.
  This summer my thoughts are with former president Ray Moscowitz who presented me with the Crystal plaque. A great newspaper editor who oversaw operations for 14 papers in his career, Ray is battling a brain tumor. He faces the challenge with the same zeal and forthrightness that he practiced journalism. Ray is a 2002 inductee.
  Also proud of my former colleague and longtime friend Kevin Finch. Kevin is now a professor at Washington and Lee University. You can link to his blog in the Rich Blogs column to the right of this post.
   Time certainly does fly!

   See you down the trail.

6 comments:

  1. I wonder what will happen to this year's cattle. And your fire danger must be very high.

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  2. See the pictures of the lakes Reservoirs) in Central California? From the lot of the Lake View Motel in Kernville you can no longer see the lake. Fingers crossed for the winter rain.

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  3. It hurts to see California so dry, even though it is part of nature's cycle.

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  4. Enchanting skies. The place is alarmingly dry though. I hope it rains there soon.
    Take it easy! :)

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