Yosemite Valley, Saturday vs. Sunday

SUMMARY: Wordless Wednesday

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Wolfie Snow Dog

SUMMARY: Tika loved the snow.

Her whole life, people's first impression of her was, "She looks like a wolf!" (Or, when younger and scrawnier, a coyote.)  I didn't always see it, but sometimes--yeah.

Bump

SUMMARY: The elder statesman.

Bump got short shrift in yesterday's post. So here he is, all 14 years and 1 month of him.

Sierras, Goodbye!

SUMMARY: We had a great weekend!

Spent the weekend with my gracious hosts, Dan and Karey, and their three border collies: Styx (compact little girl with prick ears), Dig (whom I think of as a "classic" black and white border collie), and Bump (the graying guy, 2 years older than Tika (retired from his Platinum-lifetime/platinum ADCH agility career)), and all of them handled 2-3 miles of snow hiking per day just fine. The dogs had a blast, and I loved just being there.

Got home at 2 this morning, in bed by 2:30 or so. Slept till 10. Catching up on email and photos and such, doing timecard and status report, moving the 1000 photos from one computer to the other, a little unpacking. Most of the photos I haven't even looked at yet! Now must go work.

Here are a few shots from this weekend. (If you're on facebook, you've likely already seen many of them.)

Saturday morning

Dig, Dig, Styx & Boost, Styx, Tika.



Saturday Afternoon and evening
Karey and my dogs, resting up.
Sunset. (The brilliantly colored one is the same as its preceding photo, but with saturation extremely exaggerated for fun.)



Sunday Morning

Tika, Styx, Boost, Styx



Sunday Afternoon and Evening

Tika with a rainbow, Boost, Bump with a rainbow, sunset, all of us.

Sierras, Here we Come!

SUMMARY: Hoping for a little snow.

From previous trips--

February in San Jose

SUMMARY: Wordless Wednesday

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Merry Christmas

SUMMARY: Random Christmassy photos from recent years.

And Now--Record Colds

SUMMARY: Fun with weather in San Jose.

Not too long ago, we were having record high temps for the date, as much as 10 degrees higher than ever before in early february.

Tomorrow and Friday, they're predicting record low highs (40ish F high temp, 4.4 C) for the date.

It snowed quite a bit in the hills and mountains around us last weekend down below 1000 feet (I believe), although it didn't stay at the lower elevations. When the clouds cleared enough for me to see Mount Hamilton on Sunday, looked like this (snow gone at lower elevations):

 Usually, when the sun comes out, the snow vanishes quickly. But it has stayed cold enough that, even in the sun, the snow lingered as of yesterday afternoon:

Now they're saying--precipitation is coming along with the cold cold cold, so maybe, just maybe!, snow on the ground at sea level. First time in 35 years, if it happens.  Jan Null Weather Service says (and look for signs that the climate is warming) here's the history of snow on the ground in San Jose:

• Feb 5, 1976, 1" (35 yrs ago)
• Jan 15, 1952, .3" (24 before that)
• Dec 11, 1932, .8" (20 before that)
• Mar 3, 1896, 1" (36 before that)
• Jan 16, 1888, .1" (8 before that)
• Feb 5, 1887, 3.7" (wow!) (1 before)
• Feb 7, 1884, 1.5" (3 before)
• Dec 31, 1882, 3.5" (2 before)
• Jan 12, 1868, 2" (14 before)
• Dec 25, 1862, 2.5" (6 before)

Here are my scanned slides from before dawn that morning in 1976 at my parents' house in Cupertino--a loooonnnng time ago in camera years.

Now--I'm ready! Camera's ready! Bring it!

Home But Still Sorting Photos

SUMMARY: Wordless Wednesday

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