Tuesday! A day to enjoy a greener California.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday: Crimson Quillfeather
Tuesday: ejoanna
Wednesday: Caedy
Thursday: art ah zen
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday: Alexandra Lynch
Sunday: loggersbrat
Took a Sunday (first day of Spring!) drive northward into Sonoma County for the first time since the blessed rainfall much of California has received this Winter. And I was dazzled by a sight that for most of my life I had taken for granted: the emerald-green of the grassy Northern CA hills in Winter.
With our Mediterranean climate here along the California coast, our hillsides are usually what we Californians like to call “golden” for the dry (i.e., Summer and early Fall) months of the year.
But as soon as the rains come, in normal times late Fall, the hillsides seem to turn a vibrant green almost overnight.
The last several years? Not so much green at all. So that one almost forgets how green the winter landscape can be in our climate zone.
So what a delight to be dazzled by the fresh new grass growth, the emerald sweeps, and so close to St. Patrick’s Day! Even the dormant vineyards look fabulous!
So how is the first week of Spring, 2016, going in your neck of the IAN woods?