Anza-Borrego Evening

[Adsos Letter]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These are both beautiful, my dear Adsos Letter...

But I prefer the second one for the way the fog clings to the dips in the hills. It is absolutely luminous.

Thank you for sharing both of these beauties!

[Adsos Letter]

2. Thanks, Peggy.

Still one of my favorite places in our state.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I can see why!

[Solly Mack]

4. Purty!

[Adsos Letter]

5. It's nice out there.

Average daily high in July is 107*, with 0.3 inches of rain. I've been out on days where it hit 116*

It gets toasty out there.

[Solly Mack]

6. Went I first moved to Louisiana it was 110 + for days.

I didn't eat until around midnight, if at all, and then only a quick sandwich. Who wants to cook in heat like that? or much of anything else?

The AC wasn't working at that time either.

In Germany we didn't have air at all and it got up and over 100 degrees a few times over the years. The high 90's weren't too pleasant either.

I grew up in Georgia and spent summers in South Georgia. 99 at night with no breeze and no AC. I lived outside - playing and getting into trouble.

But if I had to live somewhere with an average daily high of 107? I'd melt. I would simply give up and melt.

[Adsos Letter]

7. With that history you would do fine.

Average humidity from June-September only runs between 28-34%.

[Solly Mack]

8. Yeah, see, about that, I didn't have the sense to come out of the sun in Colorado

because it simply didn't feel like 100 degrees.

Oh, I learned.

[Adsos Letter]

9. It was in the upper 90's when I was down at that bike race in Redlands last month.

I drank water all day long but still came away with a mild heat stroke, and nicely french-fried arms and face. I've lived in California almost my entire life, and you would think I'd have learned by now.

I know we've talked about Germany before, but I've forgotten where you guys were stationed. When I was there I divided my time between Amberg, Vilseck, and Graf. The weather that made the biggest impression on me was that nice, damp, misty-freezing cold. This California boy suffered, while my friends from Minnesota and Wisconsin just laughed.

I'm hoping to go back there in a couple of years and see how things have changed since reunification.

[Solly Mack]

10. I was in Mannheim. Loved it. Close to Heidelberg and not too far away from Frankfurt.

I was already snow hardened by Colorado and Kansas. We had major ice storms in Georgia and one horribly terrible blizzard. It was epic.

It snowed twice the entire time I was in Germany and even then it was nothing. Rained all the time though. Light drizzles mostly. I got used to them.

But I did get to experience my first up close and personal hurricane. It was weaker by the time it reached us but it did cause some damage. Things were flying about and I was mesmerized. I've been through tornadoes before but this was different.

I've lived in Florida and we had mild flooding from one hurricane that didn't make landfall but did cause enough wave action to flood the streets.

It rains a lot here too. Drainage sucks though. Puddles constantly. Sometimes the puddles become full blown flooding.

On the plus side, the rain brings the egrets. You'll find them on the sides of the road looking for dinner in the ponds that form. It doesn't take long for life to take hold in the newly formed waters. I thought it kind of pointless for the birds to look for food in the rain ponds until I stopped one day to take a look. There were frogs, turtles, and crayfish. A few days later when it mostly dried up you could see a few crayfish, maybe a turtle, and nothing else. Once it fully dried out - nothing at all. I kept checking. I had a curious.

[3Hotdogs]

11. What happens in Colorado in high temperature that is different?

[Solly Mack]

12. It didn't feel as hot due to the low humidity.

What the people in the Springs called a dry heat. It was 100 degrees one day and it felt more like 75 to me, so I didn't do the smart thing and drink enough fluids like I would have back home. I didn't heed the advice of natives.

I'm from the South - humidity in the 90's during the summer. When it's hot, it feels hotter...and wet and sticky.

[3Hotdogs]

15. Thanks.

[Solly Mack]

16. No problem. If you're ever in the Springs, go to Garden of the Gods.

It's a public park but it's so much more than that.

Take a camera because you will get wonderful shots of some incredible landscapes.

[Mira]

13. Loud noise in my kitchen

me sucking in air seeing these two gorgeous images.
Thank you.

[Adsos Letter]

14. Thanks, Mira.

It's one of my favorite areas in California.