Friday, January 8, 2010

the Sierras, nevadas

So the last...oh, entire month? has been really rainy. Its been rather gross and the other day coming home from work and going to the bank, my pants got wet up to mid thigh. AND I was using an umbrella. Ridiculous. Anyway, rain here generally means snow in the mountains, and then last night it decided to get muy cold . Which meant that in the morning the clouds lifted for a bit, the sun came out, and even this winter-grinch thought it was beautiful. =) Do love the mountains with snow. (Apparently there are 3 meters in parts of the ski slopes!) Um, and then the clouds came back, and it even snowed in the city, though didn't stick, of course.

So yeah, this is the view from my roof.


And then a little zoom zoom.


And then ... well, you can dry your clothes on the roof, and I kind of liked the image. So there you have it.

Anyway, so these are all pretty pictures, but the amount of rain has actually been really bad for most parts of the country... lots of flooding, houses destroyed, people getting trapped, crops ruined, olives falling prematurely off the trees, etc. So for selfish AND non-selfish reasons, it would be nice if it dried up a bit.

Um... and to end on a happy note, I'm drinking some delicious rooibus+orange tea. mmm

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