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The Drought is Not Over

The drought is not over but we got our first measurable rain in over 6 months.  Maybe I think the weather gods are stingy but over 2 days it only ever rained at night so we couldn’t sit inside and

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The Misty Mountains Cold

When it’s 95 degrees and zero humidity this summer, when the sun beats down like a hot sheet of iron on your unprotected head, when every cell in your body aches for cool and water, I’ll look at this picture

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And Just Like That, Summer Is Over

Labor Day is always bittersweet.  The days are getting shorter, stores are trumpeting back-to-school sales, thoughts of homework, homeroom, and homesick are crowding little children’s minds, and summer weather is sliding into autumn.  Here in Southern California our September and

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Our Winter = Your Summer

You can’t help but be smug.  You can’t help but call your friends in frozen places.  When you live in Southern California and it’s 75 degrees in January, you have to tell people.  This weekend while my wife and I

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It’s Spring!

Here in Southern California, spring comes in October.  Rain has arrived after a five-month hiatus and everything is turning from dusty taupe to rich emerald.  I relish the sound of water patting and dripping on leaves, the mechanized whirr-whip of

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Washed Up

Recently it was 100 degrees here.  In Southern California that means one of several things:  A)those aren’t fireworks in the night sky, it’s a wildfire; B)an earthquake has cracked open the ground under your feet and you’re plummeting towards the

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