There's a chance my mother and I might drive down through Bakersfield on our way from Sacramento to Las Vegas just before Christmas -- if we do that, I'm going to try to visit my summer excavation site in Frazier Park/Gorman. I am so excited to see (and smell) the sagebrush and Ponderosas in the winter. I miss that view, too!
Re: dumb city girl questionarchaeomom8December 3 2007, 02:53:40 UTC
I think it's just the ambient light hitting the ripply water? The bottom of desert washes (arroyos) are pebbly and rocky and the water ripples going across and around them. My best guess. ;)
You seem to share 50% of my favorites and any friend of 12 Monkeys and Octavia E. Butler is a friend of mine.
Quite a while ago during one of our floods , some kids were playing in the creek, and then got swept away by the flood, ending up being rescued by the Fire Dept and Police et al. The ensuing picture, splashed across the front pages everywhere, won the photojournalist a Pulitzer. I bet the girls however, didn't win anything except a grounding and hard won experience.
Cool! (I was just going to say f*ck yeah! and then began wondering again about the new flagging policy..I need to post about that.)
I'll mosey on over to flickr and add you back.
That's really scary about the kids. Near our old house there was a large seasonal wash - it was actually a county flood control channel (someday I'll post about the down side to flood control that bugs me, but I'll just be preaching to the choir). There were a few storms when I worried about my (then much younger) kids, living so near that wash. When it snowed, though, they had some awesome sledding hills, down the sides of the wash.
What a perfect description! Creosote and dust! Allyson and I were leaving Target as it started raining and I told her that if someone blind-folded me and dropped me in that very parking lot as it started raining, I'd recognize the scent instantly and would know exactly where I was in the world! It seems you feel the same way! I love the rain here, too...everything comes alive and peoples' spirits seem to be reinvigorated from the moisture, too....don't you think?
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You seem to share 50% of my favorites and any friend of 12 Monkeys and Octavia E. Butler is a friend of mine.
Quite a while ago during one of our floods , some kids were playing in the creek, and then got swept away by the flood, ending up being rescued by the Fire Dept and Police et al.
The ensuing picture, splashed across the front pages everywhere, won the photojournalist a Pulitzer.
I bet the girls however, didn't win anything except a grounding and hard won experience.
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I'll mosey on over to flickr and add you back.
That's really scary about the kids. Near our old house there was a large seasonal wash - it was actually a county flood control channel (someday I'll post about the down side to flood control that bugs me, but I'll just be preaching to the choir). There were a few storms when I worried about my (then much younger) kids, living so near that wash. When it snowed, though, they had some awesome sledding hills, down the sides of the wash.
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