We are on the countdown --
two weeks from today. 😎
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Sunset on top of Bald Mountain --
next up, fireworks in every direction...
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Nice conditions on the river couple days ago.
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Too funny --
I just ran in to one of those!
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Sun doing that thing it does when you add a little fog....
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Mount Shasta, from the northwest.
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Heading in to the Sonoma Coast State Park....
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Good example of a 'marine incursion' this morning...
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Sherman Island looking pretty good this morning...
Bodega just << on >> today....
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Beautiful day for the annual "headwaters-to-headwaters" hike at Sugarloaf Ridge yesterday.
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Sunset at Eureka Dunes...
Death Valley is happening right now...
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This morning's lunar eclipse. Nice.
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Largest sunspot of the current cycle, #4366 --
taken with a consumer grade camera. With a pair of eclipse glasses can probably see it yourself!
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Nice day on the water....
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Sunrise at Dante's View, December 22nd, 2025....
Weather was just _wild_ on the eastern Sierra the other day...
40-50 knots from the left one minute...
Drive down the road a couple hundred meters --
40-50 knots from the right!
Some "mini-waterspout" action on Topaz Lake, for example.
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Death Valley, 22nd of December, 2025.
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The clicks made by a White-beaked dolphin, recorded near Iceland, in "wavelet space".
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Bodega yesterday --
before the fog rolled in, and I ended up sailing under IFR conditions... 🙃
I can not tell you how many times the wind shows up at this place on days with a full moon....
but grateful that the pattern continues...
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The song of a Wood Thrush -- in 'wavelet space'.
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The 'boing' made by a Minke whale in the north Pacific --
as seen in 'wavelet space'.
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The eerie, haunting whistle of a Weddell seal,
in 'wavelet space'.