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The Daily Bucket. Snow Sequence, Quincy, CA, northern Sierra Nevada mountains. [1]
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Date: 2023-03-03
As of the date and time shown, this was the max accumulation. This changed a few days later to deeper still.
March 1, 2023
Perhaps not the most intriguing or scintillating or awe-inspiring or dazzling of Friday sequence Daily Buckets (but what the heck am I doing? I know I’m not supposed to ever apologize to begin a speech;)
So. As I’m reasonably confident most all readers here know, northern California has been getting gobsmacked pretty good by winter storm since the 22nd. I’ve been keeping a casual photo record along with my daily temperature/weather log, so here are the changes I’ve seen over the week.
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Here’s my daily weather log and the current temp out my front door (@6:30 a.m., 01Mar23).
Wintry is the weather.
I’m 68 years old now and even though my footing out there in deep and icy snow is still reasonably trustworthy, I’m not going out very far for photos most of the time. In fact, I can gain a sequential record just by stepping out my front door. Now, if I’d been thinking about it ahead of time all my shots would have been from the precise same perspective, but this will do nevertheless:
And out my back bedroom window:
As of this morning as I write this it has stopped snowing and the weather forecast shows a break in the storms. I hope to get out, at least further than the grocery store across the street.
A few shots showing the walkway at the foot of the stairs up to my apartment.
This is where my feet go every time I head outside.
I don’t have to do any snow removal. The fellow who does all the maintenance here at my apartment complex just happens to live immediately past that first lightpole (at center of photo). His name’s Toby, and I love dis guy!
❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
It’s 7:00 a.m. I’m heading for the store. If I’m not back in twenty-four hours, call Search and Rescue!
🌀 ⚡️ 🌊
O.K. Whew! I’m back. Close, though. Danged icy out there, and then the fog set in so I came on back home.
Saw a couple of birdies.
Glad I don’t have to dig this out. Hee hee.
Hillside across the street from me.
House across the street from me.
On the street immediately out in front of my apartment.
Red-shouldered Hawk
Looks like maybe that left wing got banged up.
Oh, by the way...
That text should read “Red-shouldered Hawk”
Sequencing and slikkering on down the street just a ways:
Evening Grosbeak
Went out for another walk a bit later, but only came back with scenic shots. Birds were hiding, I guess.
📊
Well, it’s official. 5:55 a.m., March 2, 2023. Low temperature record number for the 2022-23 winter here at Casa ff; and first “in the teens” temp for the winter.
So, ya notice the time stamp isn’t 5:55 a.m., like my paragraph above says? That’s because when I wrote the paragraph above it was only 19f, not the 18f shown here.
I waited for it to warm up a bit and left the house to walk downtown for an errand around 11:00 a.m. The astounding and incredible sequence:
1st photo: Main Street, Quincy
2nd photo: A plaque commemorating the architect of the Western Pacific Railroad
3rd photo: Walking back towards my apartment down on the bicycle path. About ½ mile to go.
4th photo: Looking out across American Valley
All the way to the end of the rough trampled trail in the snow, back out on the plowed pavement, and up on top of a light pole, the capper for the day:
Red-tailed Hawk
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