Only 9am and already there’s an inch of rain for the day! Gotta pump the closed basin in our backyard again (it’s a couple meters from the house) #CaWx

A pump foot is attached to a garden hose. It’s submerged in a 1” deep puddle overlaying gravel. There seems to be rain drop waves in the puddle.

Overnight rain total was 1.25”. That’s quite good for the Sacramento Valley! #CaWx

Marsh Wren! #WrensDay #MarshWren #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Birds #Fujifilm #SOoC 🪶 A Marsh Wren is perched on a tall green reed, singing with its beak open. The background is a blurred natural setting with trees.

Some ducks had a bad hair day yesterday on account of the wind. These may have been Mergansers #Ducks #CommonMerganser #Birds #Fujifilm #SuperCroppedA group of ducks swimming on a body of water. The brown headed ducks have wind blown head feathers sticking straight up. The black headed ducks do not.

The new Dawn dish soap scent is… intense. And therefore bad. Didn’t they think of the poor oil sullied ocean critters??

~M5.7 earthquake just happened southeast of Reno, NV. I did not feel it but of course my Raspberry Shake did. #Earthquake #RaspberryShake The image shows an earthquake data visualization from Raspberry Shake, with a magnitude of 5.7 occurring in Nevada on December 9, 2024, at 23:08 UTC. The map highlights the epicenter near Carson City.

A stunning clear day today. Here’s Mt. Lassen from the Black Butte Dam. Quite the change from burn pile smoke of the last several days A scenic landscape featuring a rustic barn on rolling green hills, with sparse trees in the foreground. In the background, a snow-capped Lassen and mountain range is visible under a clear blue sky.

A nice, if breezy, day at Black Butte Reservoir. It was not great for bird watching… unless you prefer seagulls and vultures View of a dam with a concrete structure in the water, surrounded by hills and greenery under a clear blue sky. An orange floating boom extends across the water around the dam workings, with rocky terrain in the foreground.

A fire pit at a Christmas Market in Berlin, 2023 #Berlin #Travel #Fujifilm #SOoC People warming their hands around a fire pit with glowing logs.

USGS reports a M6.6 off Cape Mendocino. Here’s my seismograph curtesy of Raspberry Shake. Be sure to log a Did You Feel It at the USGS site. #CaWx #Earthquake The image shows an earthquake event off the coast of Northern California with a magnitude of 6.6, recorded on December 5, 2024, at 18:44:19 UTC. A map indicates the earthquake’s location off the coast of cape Mendocino.

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