An aerial photo of southern California from MODIS showing all the snow from last week's storm... most of the white in the center of the photo is snow!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
San Gabriels from San Bernardinos
Those further mountains are the San Gabriel Mountains where I used to work. Beyond them, to the right left (thanks Eli), you can kinda see the Santa Monica Mountains where I also used to work.
Rim of the World
The 'Rim of the World', San Bernardino Mountains, as of about a week ago. Still no snow on these mountains, but if the forecasts are right there could be lots by the end of next week.
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Resprouting Black Oak Leaves
I don't think it is dead, I think it is just losing its leaves for the fall
Resprouting Whitethorn
This little plant once covered the ground around the cabin with thick briars. After the fire it burned off and made it much easier to hike through the mountains... but it is coming back! It resprouts after fire and there are also lots of seedlings
Saturday, November 22, 2008
It is so nice at our apartment/cottage in Santa Barbara...
that I never want to leave the patio area.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
MODIS view of the California fires
A cropped image from http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA5
Me on the Lake Champlain Ferry
I am wearing ridiculous clothes because I didn't hvae any good cold weather gear. If I get into this school I need to buy a lot of winter clothes.
Cold!
It is COLD in Vermont! This was taken in late October, not November... solid ice on a car wildow.
Church Street
In October I visited Vermont to check out Burlington and the Field Naturalist graduate program. I had a great time, and didn't feel like coming back into the fires.
This is Church Street, the 'main drag' of Burlington
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Tea time
That orange glow in the center of this photo is the Tea Fire. Last Thursday night this fire was barreling down out of the canyons straight towards Santa Barbara. It ate up a bunch of houses in Montecito, mostly because of the eucalyptus, pine, and palm trees people plant up there. At the time of this photo it was moving straight towards us from about 4 miles away and growing like mad. It could have burned up the whole city, except that the winds died down and some amazing nighttime water-dropping helicopter action knocked the fire down fast once the winds slowed down. I can't even imagine trying to fly a helicopter in 60 MPH winds near an almost vertical wall of mountains.
Anyway, I also have some amazing pics of my trip to Vermont but I haven't had time to blog them yet.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Web Rain
A week ago, the first (small) rain of the season came through, and drops got stuck in this spider web.
Morning Bus View
Sometimes I take the bus from Santa Barbara to Ventura in the morning. the ride is beautiful.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
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