I know most of you are laughing at us here in California for a paltry 5″ of rain in one weekend. But for us that is a lot. While we needed it desperately, we didn’t need it all at once. If that was spread out over a few weeks or even a month it would have been much better. Luckily we will be drying out here for a few weeks with temps back in the 80’s so there won’t be anymore damage like this:
These pictures are not my house or even my block, but a few blocks north:
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| At the far north end of the block. I guess they get the gusty winds that we do at the north end of our block |
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| They were taking some massive pumps into the house. |
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| 24 hours after the last rain and water is still streaming out of this backyard. |
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| Click here for a delightful Dandelion Green Soup recipe. But I’d buy them in the store and not use them from the median strip. |
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| So pretty and delicate. |
Our damage was relatively minor:
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| I kind of like the rustic tilted look and may leave it that way. |
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| Foam and algae in the pond – yeck! |
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| Lots of damaged leaves on the turnips. |
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| Sigh! At least he noticed that he was tracking in mud after a few steps. |
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| All of my pink plum blossoms – GONE! |
It is the last one that really depresses me. The entire block was just starting to turn pink and then the storm hit. The show only lasts a week or so anyway. Boo! There are still a few blooms though.
A few shots of my other short lived beauties – freesias:
The California natives are looking beautiful:
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| The view from the living room window. |
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| The reason they are called Manzanita or “little apples”. |
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| A preponderance of pink – Arctostaphylos |
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| A plethora of purple – Ceonothus |
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| Betula Occidentalis – Water birch – just starting to leaf. |
The edibles are doing pretty well:
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| Lots of big green leaves on the artichoke. |
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| The first pomegranate bloom |
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| Thompson grapes |
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| Red Table grapes |
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| ready or not, you come out next week, beets. |
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| same to you, carrots. |
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| kale and turnips |
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| Started hardening off the tomatoes, which is why the beets and carrots need to move over soon. |
Hope your garden is starting to show signs of spring soon.
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