Continuing the Great Wood Rat Extermination and counting,

Sunday into Monday we had our last visitors of the season, a full moon and weather holding clear, bright

and so dry the bootscrapers remained cobwebbed for the duration.

[Coots chasing a Blue-Winged Teal at noon]

[Black-Crowned Night Heron]

Monday the little Lumix I’ve had for over or almost two years misfortunately took a dive off the lunchtable and developed blotches on the sensors finally impossible to hide…

So I fired up the 2013 backup

just in time for a last trip north Tuesday.

Easy roads to Alturas…

and back over Cedar Pass into Surprise Valley

for a friendly visit with Lynn and Sophie in their little bit of paradise on the edge of Lake City

then south to mid-nineties on the Smoke Creek

with more heat forecast for the week, and our last days, ahead…

M