Archive for February, 2009
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
Three-year drought comes to a symbolic ending as Nicasio Reservoir overflows
Nicasio Reservoir overflowed early today, symbolically extricating West Marin from California’s three-year drought. The land draining into the Marin Municipal Water District reservoir has received seven inches of rain in the past eight days, district spokeswoman Libby Pischel told me. On April 1, the amount of water in MMWD’s reservoirs will determine whether the district [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in General News,History,Marin County,Point Reyes Station,West Marin nature,Wildlife by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Pot busts at my cabin — again
Having just spent a three-day weekend in Los Angeles, I returned home to discover I’d missed out on quite a storm in West Marin while I was gone. On the upside, water districts and ranchers got up to eight inches of badly needed rain over the weekend. Nicasio Reservoir has come up dramatically, as have [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Point Reyes Station,The Point Reyes Light Newspaper,West Marin nature by DavidMitchell
Monday, February 9th, 2009
Happy Valentine’s Day (as it’s evolved)
This Valentine’s Day greeting comes to you from a flock of Canada geese aloft between Inverness Ridge and my cabin. Since the Middle Ages, Valentine’s Day — or St. Valentine’s Day — has been associated with lovers. But it wasn’t always this way. In fact, the Catholic Church until as recently as 1969 recognized 11 [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in History,Personal,Photography,Wildlife by DavidMitchell
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Blogging about blogging
New software is allowing me to track the countries where this blog’s readers are located, and as was noted in a Jan. 13 posting, people in 23 countries found their way here in the first two weeks after the tracking began. In the two weeks since then, readers in an additional 24 countries visited this [...]
