The Holler is getting hammered by storm after storm. This is the view looking north from our back patio, taken on Valentines Day as The Holler was being hit with the most massive rain storm. You can see raindrops on the lens. My iphone sent me 6 flash-flood warnings in 24 hours.
Here is the lower pasture being chewed up by the little creek which turned into a rapid-filled, raging river. The pasture gate is the white structure in the back left of the photo. It partially collapsed in the onslaught.
The river flows.
It flows to the sea.
Wherever that river goes,
that’s where I want to be.
Flow river flow,
past the shaded tree.
Go river, go, to the sea.
(Lyrics: The Byrds)
We hiked along the creek in the pouring rain on Valentines Day. You can see my son by the oxbow, to give you perspective on how big the creek is. It was thirty feet wide at some sections and was carrying logs and trees along like matchsticks!
Our rain gauge kept over-filling at 6 inches, and more storms are on the horizon.
Southern California is getting more snow than Boston, and the Sierras have the biggest snowpack in the country.
This is The Holler looking east this morning. It is still snowing in the mountains, which are obscured by clouds, but there is sunshine here today, with more rain forecasted.
And this is the view to the west. Our multi-year drought is finally over!! Cheers to you from the very wet, and very happy, Holler~
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Waht a wonderful landscape, you live in, Cindy! Wonderful, but with rain it looks like a little bit like Jurassic Park. LoL Best wishes, Michael
Yes!!! I want the nice veggie-sauruses to be here!!! They can eat all the grass.
OK, the carnivores we will send to Mr. Trump. LoL
Deal!
:-))
You really need the rain and now it comes in masses. The grass looks so fresh and green. Good the drought is over. Hope you are ok though with all the storms. Hope all the water soaks really in and will help in the year to come.
It is soaking in so far and hopefully replenishing the aquifer. Thank you for your concern & Happy Sunday!
Wow! This is gorgeous.
So happy you enjoyed & thank you!
Beautiful!
Thanks John & hope all is well with you! <3
Magnificent landscape, Cindy.
So pleased you like it & thank you for stopping by!
I am so late in reading, and I just hope the rain has been beneficial and not devastating. I am hoping that all the rain and snow will keep away so many fires this summer! Your Holler is so gorgeous!
Thanks my friend. The rain has been a real blessing. We are getting rain every week and all of it has time to absorb. Such a blessing <3
What a beautiful region you life in, dear Cindy!
thank you very much. The open spaces become a necessary part of life.
So the drought is over?!!! Sounds like a relief!! global weather is going for a toss….though some people still consider it to be a hoax still!
Denial is not just a river!
Usually your big rains become our big snows. This time around, it’s skipping right past us … the storm center is either too far north or too far south by a few miles. Anyway, we’re forecasted to have 2-4 inches of snow overnight tonight along with bitter cold temps. A couple extra logs on the fire tonight.
“Flow River Flow”, I know that as a hymn versus the song by The Byrds. 🙂
Where are you located? The Sierras are being pounded, Central Cali is flooding and roads are breaking up, our local mountains are impassable. Our wifi tower just froze, so I am amazed to get this wifi window.
Colorado Springs, south of Denver.
Beautiful! We were so close to moving to hills outside of Durango.
Durango, nice place. Maybe a good idea you didn’t retire there. They had a pair of wildfires around there the past two out of three years.
Wildfires are everywhere now.
Very true.
Love the lush green and flowing river! Multi-year drought is finally over, Yay!!! 🙂
The current storm just took out our wifi tower so I am surprised to find this window open up. Oh well, it’s worth it!
Magnificent photos. I think the storms beautify the area. Raging creeks, lush grasses, droplets on your lens. Breathtaking scenery. I just got out of the hospital again and am just now able to visit fellow bloggers again. <3 you Cindy!
I hope you are doing better. Sending you healing thoughts and prayers Nancy. <3 <3
What striking emerald green grass! You have magnificent views from The Holler!
Thank you Lavinia. Sometimes it feels like one of the last undeveloped parts of Southern California that is not a formal park.
Wow Cindy ! Mother Nature has really hit you guys hard. I pray for sunshine soon for you all!
Thank you Gary, the rain and snow is so needed. Our local mountains are covered with snow and the Sierras have 30+ feet!
So nice!
Thank you Juan!
Magnificent vistas. Can’t have enough of the varying moods of nature.
I love them all!
That creek looks angry, but the land is unconcerned; rather peaceful and bright actually. And I’m glad you can see snow on the mountains again.
It is snowing now as I type on the mountains! As soon as it ices over, I will lose wifi signal from out tower!
Wondrous images, Cindy. It so reminds me of the place where I house and pet-sit sometimes, in Wales…
I have not yet been to Wales, but I plan to remedy this soon!
The poem was great too
Thanks Charly & hope all is good with you!
GREAT PICTURES CINDY, CHINA
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Thank you & cheers to you China!
starte gut in die Woche und habe schöne Erlebnisse, Klaus
Danke und frohe Woche Klaus <3
prima, freut mich
<3 <3
das ist ja super
Vielen dank! <3
I hope you stayed high and dry! That’s a lot of water.
And it is snowing now in the mountains. I am typing fast because the ice will shut down our wifi tower!
We may get snow on Wednesday. I want spring. 🙂
<3 <3
Fantastic that the drought is over.. lets hope the rains do not cause too much flooding. loved your pictures Cindy.
Thank you Sue and yes, the drought is something I would love to have behind me!
<3
It looks beautiful green which will hopefully be a plus to ward off CA wildfires. We’ve seen some scary flash flooding here in the Phoenix area, but that should make for a wonderful showing of wildflowers. The desert is doing a happy dance!
Yes, with the lemons, hopefully will come lemonade. Stay warm & dry!
Sweet shots, Cindy! 🙂 We live on the Iroquois River and are always watchful about flooding (though we are on extremely high ground).
Sounds very similar to The Holler!
Glad the drought is over for you – what a beautiful area. Rushing water can be so fascinating to watch, as long as it isn’t too damaging.
Thank you & yes the power of raging water is mesmerizing!
It looks very green Cindy! 💚
And raining now!
Wonderful images 🙂
Grazie mille <3
Beautiful! Captivating! Mesmerizing! Lovely place and awesome pics Cindy.
You are very kind & most appreciated!
We heard from relatives that the roads from Las Vegas to CA have been a mess with snow closures and traffic jams. Enjoy the green! – Oscar
People stuck in cars in blizzards, roads washing out, mud slides, ski resorts telling people to stay away. Mammoth has historic snowpack and serious avalanche risk and basically un-passable roads!
And, probability of skiing until 4th of July is good?
Moving beyond the blizzards and droughts and the onslaught of frightening fires and floods…
May nature regain its sense of balance and shower its abundance as a blessing back again.
Yes. Thank you. And nature always survives. If humans don’t survive, that is the fault of some human behaviors. But nature is indestructible. She sees ice ages, global extinctions, and she brings life back. And this is only on our planet. Imagine what nature might be doing outside of our planet.
💙💙💙
Goodness, that’s quite something. What a beautiful spot you have.
Thank you! It is raining today, again, which is great!
Better than snow!
There is snow and ice too!!!
Oh so wonderful to get rain instead of drought. But it definitely looks fierce. Beautiful photos, Cindy.
And it is raining and snowing now in SoCal, but I am up in NoCal, visiting the twins and the weather up here is sunny!
Even with the storms and rain it still looks beautiful. Great photographs.
Thank you Beverly & be well my friend <3
The rain has really been something. My gosh you live in a beautiful place, Cindy. I can’t get over your view. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the kind appreciation. I am in Santa Cruz now with the twin babies enjoying the sunshine!
Ah…What an exciting time for you, Cindy. I hope you’re fitting in frequent visits. Congratulations
I am on the every two month plan according to my daughter’s request. It’s just a tad tiring!!! 😉
Very poetic! But wait! U R a poet!
I wish!!! Thank you for the thought!
Don’t wish! Just accept it!
Thank you. Very kind.
Hi Cindy, I enjoying reading your post. I have been busy for a long time and haven’t visited you. Your pictures are absolutely smashing! You bring the best pictures that everyone will love. Thank you for this post, it was amazing! Juli
So kind of you and so appreciated too! Thank you & cheers to you!
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Gorgeous! Thank you & cheers to you.
We’ve been getting hailstones , slush and soft snow for sometime now, here in Northern California. ( and that’s rare ) I wonder how it’s like somewhere in the Sierras, Lake Tahoe area. I heard the snow is several feet thick.
30 feet thick+ in some areas. I just flew yesterday from NoCal to SoCal. The Sierras have epic snowpack which you can see. Mammoth and Lake Tahoe actually asked skiers and boarders to stay away. Avalanche danger is intense. Snow plows can’t reach many areas. And then I flew into SoCal, and that was where it got really weird. The mountain ranges ringing the LA and Orange County Basin looked like The Alps when the roads shut down. There were rivers, creeks, reservoirs and lakes I couldn’t identify from the air because haven’t them seen before. When I got back last night, wifi finally resumed to The Holler for the first time in days, because the ice finally was thin enough on our tower on the mountain to allow transmission. More rain and snow is due in SoCal on Saturday. Mother Nature is speaking and I love it! It’s about time!
30 ft! I can believe that. We have friends who live in Lake Tahoe, and yes, they say they get that much snow in winter. We were there 2 years ago in May, and saw there was still so much snow in the mountains. Relatives from the Philippines were so excited to see snow for the first time. They got to play in the snow, as well.
The Sierras get massive snow pack in normal years, but this year is amazing. It is so good for the state <3
Forgive me please, I don’t know if it is good or bad to you all but the place is beautiful and I wish if I could sit a while on the green. Thank you for sharing Cindy.
It is good for us and I wish you come with me and we both can sit in the green-green forest!
Oh really, you have made my day, thank you very much!
Cindy, thank you for more compelling and powerful photographs.
Cheers to you Charles & thank you always!
Cindy, you are very welcome!
<3
You’ve lived through a lot of fear. I am sorry for you, may you not experience more floods. I live in Poland, floods are rare.
greetings
Thank you for your kind concern & lovely to meet you!
Wow it is so nice to see water running through there. This rain has been very welcome. 🙂
Yes! Thank you for understanding. People who haven’t experienced drought for many years may not understand the absolute blessing of the falling of the water <3
I am happy that your drought is over. But I also feel for your flooding. Last year – depending on who you read we tied or were over for the most rain on record. And it didn’t stop with the New Year. We’ve got little ponds (that on a nice day when we aren’t having 50 mile an hour winds) the birds have been using to bath.
Lovely views. Stay as dry as you want and can 🙂
Wow! That sounds quite impressive as long as everyone stays safe!
Moderation along with location, location, location 😉
<3 <3
Wow the storms are crazy everywhere this year. Here too!
It’s raining now!
Has your storms calmed down your way?
wow! what a lovely place for hiking. even in storms, nature shows its beauty.
Thanks much. Storm hiking is fun as long as there is no lightening.
I’m glad this isn’t a bad thing. We have too much water because of snow melt and lots of rain and temps too high too fast – so the snow is melting too fast. I’m good where I live – minor driveway damage, but many live in low places. Not the greatest.
I enjoyed this read. Any stories or writings about rivers will always capture my attention. https://noelliesplace.com/2019/05/07/rivers/
Rivers are magical. They feed, wash and transport us <3
Love your holler. Miss my much smaller one. Your views in every direction are wonderful. Had dinner with my son and daughter-in-law and watched a deer as we dined this evening. I even see them in the woods behind my apartment. A wild turkey spent the day on my porch not too long ago. I feel so blessed that I’ve been able to live in touch with nature, even now at the edge of our town in an apartment. Your holler is amazing. A wonderful home base after travel. Thanks for sharing the beauty.
When wild ones visit us freely, it is like being touched by God. Love to you Eileen <3