Right now, at almost 7pm it is 39 and dropping with precipitation enough to make snow. Should see it on the way to work anyway.
Archive for February, 2007
What a huge long crash. It was only about ten feet from one of our cars. A madrone went down and as it fell, it took two oaks and another madrone with it. The dominoe effect made it sound like the longest falling tree….I was imagining this really tall redwood or douglas fir going down because the sound lasted so long. It took the lights out at the same time, I guess just because of the shaking to the nearby telephone pole. Madrone wood is really hard and heavy, it is like the manzanita (they are in the same family), but the madrone can grow 200 feet high and when this really heavy wood falls it can take down any trees in the way. Two of the trees were snaped off about 15 feet from the ground. I though something fell from the sky, the way it looked. Okay, I’ll take a picture and post it…anyway it really scared us.
We went to Ano Nueve State Park yesterday and we walked up to a sleeping elephant seal. Cathy Jo is fearless. She got about ten feet away, it opened its eye and just gave her a sleepy look. But it was really big, maybe a half ton.
Human bones were found along Bear Creek road yesterday. So, the police wouldn’t let me go home that way. What a shame….hope it is not happening too often.
I want to post a whole gallery, but I need a little technical support. On a different note, it was a nice day to hike in the woods. I worked in the afternoon at Henry Cowell Redwood State park. I volunteer at the museum. Weirdest question of the day…where did we get the redwoods from? I thought he wanted to know if it was some kind of Hollywood type fabrication to but these trees up. Let’s hope we never see that day come. Check it out….
http://www.santacruzstateparks.org/parks/henrycowell/
Lets try these…