“Bonus weather”

Posted on by Ian C.

It might actually be late October and seriously into Autumn / Fall, but with high temperatures above 70 or even 80 these last few days, we’re enjoying every day!

I took some photos recently, to give a flavour of our weather at the moment. First – how about these Fall colors (trees on my route to work):


Or, last nights sunset:

 

At home, most trees have lost their leaves so are less pretty than on the way to work …


But with the warm weather, the fish are still keen and happy to eat:

 

However, cooler weather is coming (predicted high only about 50 on Thursday), so soon our “bonus weather” will be gone.

An empty reservoir

Posted on by Ian C.

A lack of rain and, I’ve heard, poor water management in the town, results once again in our local Goose Cove reservoid being empty! But it makes for some good photos …

 

You can see a line with brown below on the big rock; that is the normal water level in the reservoir! It’s down perhaps 15 feet (it’s so low that no more water can be drawn out of it; what’s left is evaporating).

Back nearly a century local resident Roger Babson had various boulders carved with messages to inspire the public and to assist unemployed stone-cutters (see this website for more information); in addition to carving positive messages, Babson marked various “cellar holes” with a numbered boulder – cellar holes locate where a house once was, when Dogtown was a thriving community!
Since that time, the Goose Cove reservoir has been developed and normally submerges some cellar marker stones – but with the low water, we can see stones “29” and “30 easily (the huge boulder in the picture above has “29” on it):

On the way from our house to the reservoir, two more stones are passed – “28” is in the brush near the water, while “27” is partly buried on the side of the road!

 

There are many more boulders in the area; Margaret & I toured some lots of years ago – before this website (or my digital camera) existed! Maybe it’s time to tour again (although there are many websites out there already …)