WEEKEND UPDATE, pt 2

We've been having more torrential rainfall the past couple days. I just saw the 5 day forecast and it's all wet. The daily police car chases have been replaced on the news with sliding houses updates. Of course, that's what people get here for building their $2M houses on a pile of sand.

The best thing about these increasingly frequent rainy winters in SoCal (perhaps the only good thing from it) is that November to February showers bring March flowers. In particular, the California Poppy. There's nothing more breathtaking than being in the middle of an endless field of bright orange poppies. I took the photo above a couple years ago in 2003. That was a pretty solid poppy season. The best was following the 1998-99 El Nino. Unbelievable poppies that March-May in Antelope Valley. Just poppies as far as the eye could see. Last year looked like a good year, too, but then suddenly it shot up over 90 degrees for a week in February and scorched the buds. The rainfall so far this winter has been double the average over there, so it's shaping up well. We're keeping our fingers crossed.

And now for something completely different, I discovered a mighty odd thing. Somebody out there was reading a german translation of this blog. I think it's German anyway. I'm pretty sure this blog sucks worse in German than English, and that's hard to do.