Fire, Fish and Forests
September 16, 2014Sunshine this early Tuesday is filtered by what weather folks call ‘haze,’ but it’s just low clouds blocking a bright morning here on California’s north coast. Just a little bit ago skies were clear. We…
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California Creamery-Melt
September 12, 2014Warm and comfortable this afternoon on California’s north coast, but way-warm just about everywhere else out here. The LA area is excepting a heat wave this weekend, temperatures in triple digits — this on the…
Solar Plasmatic
September 12, 2014Dawn was clear and bright, but fog arrived silently to steal the thunder. Another Friday here on California’s north coast and this morning keeps the weather pattern alive — bright and warm early on, then…
Babel On History
September 10, 2014Sunny with a touch of overcast skies this early Thursday on California’s north coast — could be another start to a most-beautiful day. Yesterday turned out warm and gorgeous. Today, though, is the 13th anniversary…
Famous Last Words
September 10, 2014Bright and way-sunny this Wednesday morning here on California’s north coast — rare type of wake-up, but due to my sleeping problems, I slept until well after sunrise and missed the dawn coming up like…
Pardon My Ass!
September 8, 2014In the grand slush of news lately, I’d overlooked today’s 40-year anniversary — Gerald Ford’s forgive-and-forget of Dick Nixon. And nearly 40 years later, President Obama did just about the same thing with George Jr.…
Tone-Deaf
September 7, 2014Last week, a federal judge in New Orleans ruled the 2010 Deepwater Horizon debacle was the result of BP’s “willful misconduct” and “gross negligence.” And can we hear a…’Duh!’ Yet fit to be tied with their…
Poor the Poor
September 3, 2014Almost a full-sun sunrise this Wednesday morning on California’s north coast, but at the last second, ground fog with an overcast cloud layer muted the air into a thin gray haze. Shucks! I can’t remember…
Fire in the Forests of Mars
September 2, 2014Fog-bound this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, but just a wee-bit to the east are huge chunks of deep-growth forests, dry and waterless, and in some places, on fire. A moist shoreline and a…
Words
August 26, 2014A huge, banner head at the top of HuffPost this afternoon quickly snapped at me — ‘Here…Human-caused…Already dangerous…Likely irreversible,’ and with that last word knew it had something to do with climate change. And sure…