hints of what is on the way....

         A friend to the east in Arizona posted snow pictures. Friends back east in the midwest and on the east coast are through with winter. Our Mediterranean climate gives you a look at what is coming your way in a month or so. Unless you are like our friends in upper lower Michigan. For you we are glad you enjoyed your daily vitamin D during your visit.

     Here's a look at what's happening on the California central coast.

As I make a weekly hill climb and hike I've been paying attention to the soil. Most of the trails on the incline are almost normal dry. There are a couple of crossings and a few low spots that are still boggy. If we get ample sun and warmth, all of that rain from those massive storms have probably prepped us for a great wildflower bloom.  Stay tuned.  The Fungi are happy already.

    See you down the trail. 

A TOUGH QUESTION & EXQUISITE BEAUTY

HOW DO YOU CLEAN A BATTLEFIELD?

     It is more than a rhetorical question, but the answer is fleeting.  I ask because I watched a friend present a report on his mission to Kuwait to supervise the cleaning of a target range on an American base.  Specifically they were charged with removing uranium shells or bullets that had been fired into a mound of sand. 

      Laborers from Pakistan and India were hired to dig out the material, struggling in 3 digit temperatures, using Geiger counters.  The gathered debris was brought back to the U.S. where it was disposed of in Washington state in one of only few sites approved for such nuclear waste.

       As he noted, the battle fields themselves still have not been cleaned.  Uranium at the grade of weapons has a half life of relative eternity. Another legacy of modern warfare.

DAY BOOK

LOVE THOSE FLOWERING TREES

See you down the trail.