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…
Snowzanita
Snow plants
Snow hills
Snowrro Bay
Petey buckled into his Lookout bed, ready to snowre.
I caught The Big Plane leaving McChesney Field Saturday morning right before sunrise…
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.
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.
These clouds were over the mountains south of San Luis Obispo this morning .
You can see the shape of the ranges reflected in the clouds as the wind blows over the hills.
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.
Here is a Google Earth 3D image from the same perspective. Pretty close and pretty cool…
Google Earth doesn’t know about clouds in an aerial image, so it projects them on top of the mountains like snow.
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.
Here’s an image of Cerro San Luis captured from Google Earth.
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.
