Summer Leaves

It is still August!  Yes, the college started classes two weeks ago and the public schools start next week,
but it is not Autumn! Summer should not be leaving yet, and leaves should not be assuming Fall colors!
Do the trees know something that we don't about what lies ahead?

livin' the dream

There are reasons why I call this place "Q-topia."
Here are some of them:

Music, Music, Music, Music

In Quincy the 4th of July celebration goes for four days (and nights).
If you're not here, you're you're missing the music and a lot more.

Check it out at HighSierraMusic.com.

You can hear some of the music some of the time online at FATMusicRadio.com.

Toasty

Summer Food & Fun

At the Quincy Certified Farmers' Market 4:30 - 7:30pm every Thursday from
June 20 through September 19, 2013 at Church and Main St.

Check the website for the summer entertainment schedule and more.

Be a sponsor for as little as $5 and get this bumper sticker.

Shake'n Quake

Here is the USGS map of the earthquake and aftershocks (48 above magnitude 2.5 and counting) over the past 12 hours.  In spite of the original magnitude and the many aftershocks, no injuries are reported and damage is relatively minor and that was mostly limited to the areas from Greenville to Chester and around lake Almanor.

Screen Shot May 24, 2013 9:24am PDT

Markup

No, not HTML, or XML, or the international standard SGML!
A different SGML: Street and Ground Markup Language  :-)
The markup appearing on the streets and on the ground around Quincy.
You know - like spray-can gang tags, but these are done by workers in trucks with spray-cans of particular colors to show the underground utility locations.

Pole Tree

Look closely.  This "tree" is a telephone pole.

Parking

... is an action verb.

Emily's Window

According to the note on the door, she is closed because she is still sick.  

I am recovering from a cold myself (I can't remember the last time I had one), 

but her window in the sunlight made me feel better.  

They are only paper flowers growing beside a paper dress, 

but as with the Paper Moon, you can believe that Spring is near.

Emily's Garden

Snow Drops

To mark the end of a beautiful holiday weekend,
the forecast for tomorrow says that these snowdrops
and their neighbors and the roads
will be covered with snow.

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Here are scenes from today's first annual Quincy Groundhog Fever Festival.

Everything is hi-tech.

The groundhog was carved to order - with a chainsaw.

  For a few dollars, everyone gets to be a judge
  of the chili cook-off (above).






  Captain Cupcake (left and below)
  didn't win the sweet eatin' contest.
  He only ate cupcakes, not the donuts.
  Maybe next year (or the next repeat of this day :-)

Notice the prone snow-monster.

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