Neither snow nor rain will stay forester Elliott Menashe from heading out into the woods. Maybe gloom of night will keep him inside, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Certainly not a Whidbey Island ice storm.
Elliott snapped this picture of some pretty impressive icicles hanging above a creek on one of the coldest days of the year.
Spied this thicket of Queen Anne’s Lace while driving. The white umbrel heads looked so beautiful bobbing in the breeze, while behind them the white waves broke on the shore, that I had to pull over and try to capture them for my water photo of the week. If I were a fabric designer, I’d…
Attending to Hurricanes Throughout the summer various tropical depressions, storms and hurricanes were spinning out in the Atlantic. Knowing we would eventually be heading south along the Atlantic Coast and potentially into the path of these tropical storms, I looked at hurricane news every few days. But in early October I gradually stopped watching. Hurricane…
Elliott Menashe is feeling justifiably frustrated. After two decades of teaching the buyers of shoreline properties how to keep their bluffs intact, he thought by now he’d be watching a trend toward better treatment of these important sites. Instead, this past year he’s witnessed an unprecedented number of slides due to poor management of the…
While in Pureto Vallarta for a soccer tournament this past week, I repeatedly enjoyed sitting in the traffic jam that can result from extreme stormwater flooding. Rains took out the northbound span of the Ameca River bridge back in September, when, in the equivalent of a 100 year storm, the area received a month’s worth…
The eelgrass is truly back. This is the eelgrass meadow that caused all the commotion a few years ago by completely disappearing. Last year it was still sparse. This year it’s back, healthy eelgrass, lush and beautiful and undulating beguilingly in the sunshine.
Maybe all is not lost when shipping containers go overboard. Fascinating video of a lost container, subject of a study by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.