Several people have sent me emails with these and a bunch of other photos of art made of firewood. (One of them is in our book Builders of the Pacific Coast, done by Alastair Hezeltine (p. 170).) I can’t locate where this group came from.
When a friend came over this morning, he said, “Red sky in the morning…,” referring to the phrase:
Red sky at night, sailor’s delight,
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
In other words, a storm is coming.
Caused me to think about this saying, familiar to coast dwellers and especially sailors and fishermen. So, why does a red sky in the morning mean a storm is coming? I looked it up here, on Wikipedia:
“In America:
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.
In Great Britain and Ireland:
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight,
Red sky in morning, shepherd’s warning.…
Weather systems typically move from west to east, and red clouds result when the sun shines on their undersides at either sunrise or sunset. At these two times of day, the sun’s light is passing at a very low angle through a great thickness of atmosphere, the result of which is the scattering out of most of the shorter wavelengths — the greens, blues, and violets — of the visible spectrum, and so sunlight is heavy at the red end of the spectrum.
Photo shows fruits in bowl, skinned pads (nopales) in plate. I was defeated by this plant a few years ago, just could not get stickers out, especially from skins of fruit. This time, with help from Nature’s Gardens — Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer, I got more serious. Used tongs to hold, scrubbed with stiff brush, used heavy duty potato peeler on pads. Still difficult, but was able to eat fruit without mouth punctured with stickers — nice mild sweet taste, lot of seeds — and last night sauteed the pads along with garlic and onions, pretty good.
Any one got tips on cleaning, eating? These are so abundant, at least on the West Coast.
Surfer Jeff and his homemade bike surf rack. He used a curved piece of scrap metal—can’t see it here, it’s on other side—covered with duct tape, strapped to side of bike. He can go from his house to the water all on his own power. No gasoline.
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About 4″ in the last 4 days. Creeks rushing, reservoirs pretty full. Can it be that there is some good news in these messed up times? I have about 18″ of rain this year, about a third more than normal. Caused me to dial up Toots singing “Love the Rain.”
“Swedish adventurers test drive a self-made replica of an 1853 Wind Wagon before sailing it 500 kilometers across the salt flats of Nevada, United States.”
From Bertil Klevner via Godfrey Stephens
