It's finally the hot days of summer, and unlike most years, we are not getting the afternoon rains like we usually do. There are storms in the area, but they miss us. We were lucky yesterday, though, because the rain fell on a nearby forest fire and went a long way toward putting it out.

A few weeks ago there was a rock slide that closed our main highway for several hours. Instead of coming from formations near the road, the car-sized boulders broke off 'way up the side of the mountain and tumbled to the highway.



It was fun touching the raw surfaces of the boulders that were cleared away because they have not been exposed to the weather so they had a roughness about them. They are mostly pink granite with large veins of mica. This side was out toward the weather, so has a lot of lichen on it.



Here are some pot holes eroded into the rock over the centuries. I would love to see the water cascading through these headed for the river.



This is what the river looks like where it happened, it looks like a Coors Beer advertisement: