Sunday morning, our 2nd day at the solar energy festival in Northern California. Last night I had dinner at the bar of the Ukiah Brewing Company and was having a conversation with the guy sitting next to me about wild foods, mushrooms, fishing, and road kill barbecue. Ross Burkhardt, one of the pioneers of small-scale water-driven electric generators, and who I’ve known for years, was sitting nearby and joined in the conversation. “I just killed a rattlesnake that was harassing our goats,” he said. “If you want to come out to my place, you can have it.” (He’d skinned it and put it in the frig.) I picked up some ice and followed Ross and his wife out to their place in the hills, where I picked up the snake (going to marinate and barbecue it), saw Ross’s latest experiments with generating electricity, and took this shot of llamas silhouetted against the full-moon cloudy night sky.
Middle pic: filet of rattlesnake; bottom pic: church in Hopland, Calif.
