Wind and Heat

After a late season of cool weather and rains, summer is descending upon the Central Valley. We’ve had clear skies for over a week-and-a-half, and this past weekend there were strong north winds in the morning, caused by a high pressure cell building over the northern Great Basin. Today it hit about 90. We will soon get in the pattern where we will have headwinds both ways on our bike commutes—the north wind in the morning, and late in the afternoon the Delta breeze from the south, mercifully cooling things off. But summer weather means it’s time to set up the solar cooker.

We “bloggers of place” have our own section on this week’s edition of the collaborative Carnival of the Vanities. The section on place blogging is at the end of the listing of posts. Thanks to Fred of Fragments from Floyd for suggesting this, and Susanna of cut on the bias for graciously agreeing to host us.