A year ago the world shut down. A year ago our lives changed. A year ago streets were silent and city centers deserted. There was no laughter in playgrounds or schools. Children stayed home. There was fear. A virulent virus, perhaps caused by bats or pangolins in a distant Chinese wet market overtook the world. Covid-19, like the Plague, Black … [Read more...]
Weather Phenomenon and California Fires
Dramatic Lightening Show On August 16 the night sky across Northern California was lit by a dramatic a dry lightening storm, a weather phenomenon. "A weather event on a scale not seen in decades," reported the New York Times. It was an extraordinary light show with 12,000 lightening strikes. Multiple jagged forks and brilliant white bolts of … [Read more...]
East Hampton Retreat
Fireflies, Artists and Flowers Was it the sunsets or the luminescent fireflies dancing on the lawn by Hook Pond that made my East Hampton retreat so memorable? Or was it finding a patch of iris, similar to those painted by Childe Hassam in 1909? Iris which Hassam immortalized in The Water Garden, a painting which mesmerized me in the … [Read more...]
JOSHUA TREE PARK BEFORE COVID-19
Joshua Tree Park Three weeks ago I was in California's Joshua Tree Park. It was a perfect Southern California spring day in the sunny seventies. The Joshua trees, with their knarled prehistoric shapes, were silhouetted against a brilliant blue desert sky. Now, I am in self-isolation in San Francisco. Joshua Tree National Park is closed to … [Read more...]
California Spring Kaleidoscope
World Almond Capital Two weeks ago I headed to the Capay Valley, north San Francisco, to see the California Spring unfolding. I wanted to see the almond trees in bloom. 80 percent of the world's almonds come from this area. Orchards stretch in every direction, right to the base of the Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area. It was a … [Read more...]
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