Finally, some Autumn colour!
The foliage is running two to three weeks behind normal!
And our Violets have begun to flower for the second time.
We've lived here 33 years and it's never happened before. Crazy!
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ReplyDeleteAlan, how near are you to the Northern California wildfires? It sounds devastating!
10 dead 1500 structures burned and two hospitals evacuating...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/us/california-fires-napa/index.html
Not close at all; I just saw the story. I used to live up in that general area. Must be a four-hour drive from here to there. Just read your post on the previous thread; don't overdo too much, listener. Some excerpts from the political web sites follow.
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SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds swept through California wine country Monday, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sending an estimated 20,000 people on a headlong flight to safety through smoke and flames. [Click] Holy Cow!
Fires are worse for the nerves than floods. And even worse when you are familiar with the landscape that's being destroyed. Very scary chit.
ReplyDeleteI just read the morning newspaper story about the fires; I was shocked to read about parts of Santa Rosa burning. We and relatives lived there off and on for a long time. I sent an inquiry about whether there was news from or about any of my school classmates in the area. Definitely a good deal worse than the fire I remember back in about 1965, and burning over some of the same areas. Nothing near my home town, though--that's a good deal farther north. And they talk about high winds--none here.
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It seems all my classmates in the Santa Rosa area are safe.
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A year from December I expect to be going to a convention in Santa Rosa, but the hotel they plan to use is several miles from the fire zone. And word is that changes in the weather is making it possible to contain the fires.
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