After Christmas we drove to Canada to visit my family. It was somewhat sad for me because we would first be attending my mom’s memorial in Rossland. It was not a surprise that she passed but I do really miss her greatly. There were so many little things on the trip or places we went that made me think of her and miss her.
On the way we made a quick stop at Hedge Creek Falls. There has been a lot of rain in California this month but not much snow. As of Jan 1, the snow pack is in very bad shape: 45% of normal (north), 70% (central), 92% (south). Precipitation is well over 100% of normal throughout the state. However, we need the snow, not the rain. People will exclaim: global warming! If it is all due to global warming then explain why the snow pack was normal last year and the year before that. You can’t. Maybe it is just a bad year for snow in California. Hopefully we will get more snow in January, however. There was a lot of flooding because of the rain before Christmas. There was some legitimate bad flooding in southern California and some due to king tides in Marin county but others I don’t understand. Redding, for instance. They only got four inches of rain but had bad flooding. They were saying it was a 50 year storm. That is baloney. It was not a 50 year storm. 4 inches of rain is not that much. Plenty of times in recent years they had 4 inches of rain (and no flooding). I can tell you the dates if you want me to. On our own street there was a little flooding because leaves were blocking the drains and the city did not clear them out before the storm. They knew the storm was coming but they did not bother to clear the drains.
Hedge Creek Falls was roaring. There were cascades falling above the waterfall and down into the top of the falls. I think I have just seen that once before and I had the same issue then. How to photograph it? I could not figure it out. There is no decent angle to photograph the waterfall with the above cascades so I just photographed the main drop from the other side. It was wet and misty going behind the falls. Journey did not want to get wet! She went as far up on the inside of the cave as she could to avoid getting wet. She is so funny. It was a nice and quick stop at Hedge Creek Falls before we continued our journey to Canada.
