Life of Wry

Davis is gearing up for a heat wave. Look at this crazy ten day outlook:

Classic bell curve! Nice job climate gods.

We had hoped we might reach the end of June 2023 without having experienced a single three-digit temp… but it looks like Thursday, June 29 we’ll cross that dreaded line.

But, today, Wednesday, it was still safe for Janet and me to go for a long, exposed walk in the North Davis ditch. It is truly lovely up there; I’m always glad to see new things.. like this turtle walking across our path. This is a wee one… his/her mama looked to be about five yards away and moving at a good clip back into the brush.

As we were fawning over these guys, a giant bullfrog was croaking its head off in the pond (not visible due to the super tall reeds (I assume it was a giant frog, given the decibels coming outa him). Then some little froggies hopped along the trail. Then a trio of horses sauntered by (with riders).

I mean.

We even ran into, and talked to, Larry.. the piano-tuner-turned-bug-photographer (he’s really, really good at this). He was bent over with his long lens buried deep into a bush. His photographs of the ditch’s thriving bug community are amazeballs. Here’s a sample from the North Davis Channel Facebook page.

I have a hard time looking at them (bugs, you know), but I do appreciate the patient, careful, skillful photos. Larry’s got photography chops!

So… a mile or so in the ditch (avoiding all those bugs), then coffee at Peet’s, followed by a walk back through the truly wonderful North Davis Greenbelt. (Yep… those developers back in the 70s and 80s had a very fine vision!)

A very nice Wednesday morning, pre-heatwave walk.