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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Rolling in High Rolls

Absolutely no idea what this little flower is
We've been in High Rolls for a few hours now, and it's really quite nice:  overcast and cool.  It was thundering when we were transferring supplies from the Jeep to the house.  Dr. K seems to think we have about a 50% chance of rain.  Let's see if she's right.  She knows a lot about composition and rhetoric, but not too much about meteorology.  Becca is really happy to be up here.  She's already had an encounter with the Black Lab, Champ, who was the only neighbor dog to come to greet us.
Happy to be in the high country

It's been overcast since we got here at noon

Sand Verbena

Dr. K with work gloves; time to get busy

4 comments:

Dr. K said...

Packrat, you need to find out the name of that pretty flower.

Scott said...

Looks good, Packrat. I guess I should wish that you get some of that 50% rain for the sake of the droughty conditions, but then it'll ruin your weekend. I hope it holds off until you leave...how's that?

Looks like our damp, foggy, humid and cool spell is over and we're going to have a nice weekend with fairly normal (low-mid 70s) temperatures. I went out to do my breeding bird census this morning at 5:30 and nearly turned around and went back to bed because we'd had a shower overnight (which means the woodland vegetation would have been drenched and so would I by the time I was done). But I was up and at least half awake, so I went out anyway. The rainwater never made it down to the understory (it was captured by the canopy trees) and I had a good, cool, and mostly dry morning of birding.

packrat said...

An absolutely wonderful description of a pleasant birding morning, Scott.

We left the windows open last night (temperature dropped to 56 F), and we were awakened this morning by the gobbling of wild turkeys down by the creek.

Caroline said...

Great photo of Dr. K!

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