Walking Leroy in the Valley — Episode Four
April 27, 2020A much cooler run this morning for Leroy and I with our daily stroll on the Rascal Bike Path here in Merced. I’d gotten up earlier, so we were off before any heavy heat had…
Tag Archives: Environment
COVID-19 and Climate Change and ‘Locust Swarms’
April 25, 2020Breezy Saturday afternoon in California’s Central Valley, laptop in the backyard on the glass table under the umbrella and live tapping, clicking on the outside. A good setting in our current form of environmental/health/living scenario.…
Walking Leroy in the Valley — Episode Two
April 24, 2020Another warm day in California’s Central Valley and once again Leroy and I dog-walked a bit on the Rascal Bike Path here in Merced. Although breezy outside the path, hot and near-still strolling along it.…
Walking Leroy in the Valley — Episode One
April 23, 2020Sunny and way-warm this mid-day Thursday in California’s Central Valley. And the inaugural post of Walking Leroy in the Valley (yesterday was the ‘pilot‘ episode). Although technically in a ground-sense the program is a part…
Walking Leroy In The Valley — Pilot
April 22, 2020Sunny-bright near mid-day Wednesday in California’s Central Valley. A peaceful-looking expansion in a weird-reality setting. And today the start hopefully to a daily exercise in local journalism — a post on my walk with my…
‘Megadrought’ In A Time Of Virus
April 17, 2020Overcast and windy this early-evening Friday here in California’s Central Valley, a mostly-pleasant day overall in these peculiar times, which maybe says a lot without actually saying much at all. Oddly, and kind of scary,…
Climate of the Environment: COVID-19 ‘Haunting Humans’ For Years to Come
April 15, 2020My cell-phone tells me it’s Wednesday, so we’ll go with that, despite the real fact it feels like yesterday, or a week ago. In a convoluted era of surreal craziness, this is by far one…
COVID-19 Has an ‘Impact’
April 2, 2020Breezy-sunshine this early-evening Thursday lolling in California’s Central Valley. Another episode of the continuing crazy-ass nowadays. (Illustration: The Twin Towers withstanding an asteroid-induced tsunami from 1998’s “Deep Impact,” found here). Earlier in the afternoon during…
COVID-19, Climate Change and Youthful Arrogance: ‘If I Get Corona, I Get Corona’
March 18, 2020In recent years, maybe the last decade or so, climate change has so galvanized my focus on how serious a concern it is for civilization, and for everybody’s children, I used to get depressed, sad…
What is Who?
March 13, 2020Indeed, who the fuck are these people? Is a major part of this country’s population completely vile-stupid? (h/t Tom Sullivan at Digby): And blind as shit — analysis via CNN this morning: There are big…