Friday, January 22, 2010

Santa Clara River

After 5 days of rain, I was curious to look at the local stretch of the normally dry Santa Clara River today, and here's what it looked like. Looks like it flashed and ran bank to bank at some point in the last few days, but I got here too late to see it...

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Poppies


Hiking in the local mountain park today I found the first poppies of the season in bloom. With weather in the upper 70's recently, these flowers were tricked into blooming early....