water water everywhere

[ritaxis]

Today is Snapshot Day. We go out in little teams and sample the water in creeks and culverts and sloughs up and down the coast from Pacifica to Morro Bay -- three hundred miles of the Central Coast. My team went to Corralitos Creek and Harkins Slough. It was more fun than I can say. It's like hiking and chemistry sets and girl talk all at once -- except the girl talk is about water and cameras and the whole world. 

We saw a really strange rainbow slice in a cirrus? cloud on our way back to the checkin (which was at  the back entrance to Natural Bridges S.P.!  More loveliliciousness)

And this is what I look like when I have snagged the precious nutrient sample in the doughty whirlpack bag.

On another front, I had a dream about winged people this morning and it was all full of plotty goodness but I don't know if it is a story yet.  I wrote it all down on the back of the sudoku puzzles I keep in the bedstead.

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[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Plotty goodness! LOL Sounds like you had a good day.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was, and it went on: we went to see Berlioz' Requiem done by the Santa Cruz County Symphony at the Civic, and we had to sit right under one of the brass choirs up in the rafters because we got late, cheap tickets, and it was great sitting right under the trombones. I enjoyed myself a lot even though I don't much like the kind of music it was. It had some rollicking parts and some really loud parts, and I liked them much better than the contemplative parts.