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For Trish

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

In her comment, Trish said:
“Hey, great pix. You need to post more! This is a momuentus occasion!

Oh, and your dog is cute! While you may have gotten his “best side” it might be nice to see his face!”

Her ya go…

Cuesta Ridge Snow 11 March 2006
Snowzanita

Cuesta Ridge Snow 11 March 2006
Snow plants

Cuesta Ridge Snow 11 March 2006
Snow hills

Cuesta Ridge Snow 11 March 2006
Snowrro Bay

Cuesta Ridge Snow 11 March 2006
Petey buckled into his Lookout bed, ready to snowre.

Leavin’ on a jet plane…

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

I caught The Big Plane leaving McChesney Field Saturday morning right before sunrise…

Sunrise takeoff of the big plane McChesney Field, 11 Feb 2006

Controlled burn, and the crows

Monday, December 12th, 2005

There must have been a controlled burn somewhere around 166 southeast of here today. This afternoon there was a huge smoke column in that area, and GOES 10 Satellite wildfire image showed a fire in that area.
Controlled burn near HWY 166 12 Dec 05

As I was watching the smoke column build, part of the afternoon commute of crows went by. There must be about one hundred in just this one group.

Crow flock in front of smoke column 12 Dec 05

Wind-blown whoop-de-doos

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

These clouds were over the mountains south of San Luis Obispo this morning .
Wind blown clouds over the mountains south of San Luis Obispo

You can see the shape of the ranges reflected in the clouds as the wind blows over the hills.

Google Earth vs real life

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Sunday Katie and I hiked to the top of Bishop Peak. Below is one of the pictures I took of Cerro San Luis from the peak.

Cerro San Luis from Bishop Peak, real photo

Here is a Google Earth 3D image from the same perspective. Pretty close and pretty cool…

Google Earth 3D image of Cerro San Luis

SLOWeather neighborhood

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Google Earth doesn’t know about clouds in an aerial image, so it projects them on top of the mountains like snow.
Irish Hills 3D from Google Earth

Cerro SLO from Google Earth

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

This is the same basic image as the first, rotated slightly and tilted down. It’s even more impressive to see Google Earth rotate and tilt the image right on your computer.
Cerro SLO in profile from Google Earth

SLO from Google Earth

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Here’s an image of Cerro San Luis captured from Google Earth.
San Luis Obispo from Google Earth

41 fire, 1994

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

In 1994, we’d been in our current home (location of the SLOWeather weather station) a little over a year. This picture was take from our driveway the first or second day of the fire. It’s looking almost due north. The peak to the right is Bishop Peak, the one to the left is Chumash Peak. Tassajera Peak, toward the west end of Cuesta Ridge, is behind the smoke, through that small saddle at the right top of Chumash. At this point it had already burned, including some radio sites.

41 fire