nature – Page 9 – While Busy Making Other Plans …

Mt. Emily today at about 10am. A bit better. See data on all area fires at the maps here.

A static peek at some area fires, in case you can’t get to the interactive dynamic maps at the link above:

Fukushima, Seven Summers On

Photographer Tetsuro Takehana documents how nature is taking over the disaster zones in the March 2011 meltdown. Read more here.

Sac Annex Lightning Strike Followup

Today, while visiting ex-colleagues at EONI, I learn more about the lightning strike a few days ago (see Yesterday’s Storm). Here is some video footage from a webcam at EOU that captured the event. Here, we overlook the downtown area from the EOU campus, looking north toward Mt. Emily. The Sac Annex is the large brown building about midway vertically in the frame and at about the ten percent mark from the left side (nine o’clock position?). About three seconds in.

rDay Eight-Hundred-Thirty-Two: Aftermath of a Murder

Yesterday’s Storm

rDay Eight-Hundred-Twenty-Four: après-rain

The back yard, after the p.m. thunderstorm (basement flooding not shown) …

They Hold Grudges, I’m Told

Well, here is an interesting piece.

Somewhat akin to practicing scales on the piano, whenever I am walking about with Nikon in hand, I try to quickly follow and focus on any flying object that crosses overhead, just to see if I can do it. I don’t know the difference between crows and ravens (and googling hasn’t really helped me clear up the distinction), but whatever we have here, we have a bunch of them. Like these from the other day.