Monthly Archives: September 2015

Rough Fire Update

Posted on September 8, 2015 by | 6 comments

 

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Rough Fire

95,000+ acres
31% containment
$67 million

 

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SIGN OF SOMETHING

Posted on September 7, 2015 by | 12 comments

 
The pair of eagles
returning early to ride
our foothill thermals

elicits surprise:
‘what do they know that we don’t?’
we agree to say.

No water, no place
to fish in a four-year drought—
it must be something.

 

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Weekly Photo Challenge: CONNECTED

Posted on September 5, 2015 by | 5 comments

 

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To the earth, to us
all awakened with the warm
milk of motherhood.

 

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The Weather

Posted on September 4, 2015 by | 3 comments

 

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It’s difficult, after four years of drought, to think in terms of rain. Making preparations for a wet winter may offend the superstitious, or seem contrary to the priorities of recent years, but Daniel Swain’s blog offers a most comprehensive forecast for the coming months. Should California be the target of a “Record-strength El Niño,” its impact on the West may be exacerbated by current and recent wildfires.

 

Rough Fire

83,000+ acres
25% containment
@ Cedar Grove, Converse Basin, Buck Rock Lookout

 

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REPLACEMENT HEIFERS

Posted on September 3, 2015 by | Leave a comment

 

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We feed our future,
as it approaches, plenty
of alfalfa hay.

 

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SEPTEMBER

Posted on September 2, 2015 by | Leave a comment

 

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We begin
when calves come
trailing their mothers

out of seclusion
to hay—children
added to explore

this old ground,
wind shuffling leaves.
In their eyes,

fresh innocence
and a chance
for improvement.

 

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Heron and Egret

Posted on September 1, 2015 by | 2 comments

 

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A game since April, my presence, while irrigating, interrupts the daily routine of wading the edges of the pond for this Great Egret and Great Blue Heron. Usually one or the other, they generally fly when I get within a 100 yards of them to light a safe distance away on dry ground to watch and wait until I’m done. Sunday morning as the pipeline filled, they both circled to a secluded spot in the cattails instead, just barely within range of my camera lens.

Not quite a siege of herons.

 

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