Leon Turnbull Photography

Here’s some more of those cool white popcorn flowers. I found these at Folsom Lake, on an outing the other day with my family. I was looking for the lupin (lupine? lupin? whatever) that grow there in abundance, but they were not yet blooming. They always seem to take longer to bloom there, and they probably need another month. I did find some other wildflowers, including these popcorn dudes.

Speaking of Folsom Lake, it is actually a lake right now. In fact, it is higher than I have seen it in many years. The latest reservoir statistics say Folsom Lake is at 74 percent capacity, and about 120 percent of average for this time of year. And don’t forget there is still plenty of snow in the mountains that has not melted yet. So that must bode well for our drought and summer water supply, correct? We’ll have plenty of water and more to make it through the hot summer months, correct? Well, actually …… no. According to the Folsom Telegraph, the powers that be are actually planning to drain the lake quite soon, and slap us Folsom residents with a stage 4 water alert for the summer! What? You gotta be kidding me, right? Nope. Apparently, they need to do this to flush the Delta so southern Californians don’t get salt water from the ocean in their water supply and also to help out all the fishies. Well, I wonder how necessary this drastic action really is, it doesn’t seem right to “waste” all that water. If it is so necessary, I don’t really have a problem with the concept of flushing the Delta. It is something that would happen naturally every year if there was no Folsom Dam. The real problem I have is with the city officials that have gotten us into this mess in the first place. They have built and built and built over the past 20 years or so, dramatically increasing the population here, but have not taken into account the water supply for all these new residents! Not one drop of new water has been added. So even though God has adequately supplied us with water this year, we still need more! An “average” year of water is no longer enough to satisfy all the people that live here now. I just can’t believe that the city planners could not understand this fundamental concept when they were doing all their building. Okay, end rant. Enjoy the flower picture. I’ll try to find a waterfall for my next post. 🙂