This would probably be good “End Notes” material but I’m enjoying it too much to bury it in there: this video from KBPS, “Desert Seasons“, documents in a, for the observer familiar with this landscape, rather non-chronological order, the seasons in the desert.
Conservation
Please Help Protect the Del Mar Mesa Preserve
A developer (Cisterra) is trying to get a private piece of land that is surrounded on three sides by the Del Mar Mesa Preserve re-zoned to “industrial” in order to built a 450000 square feet office complex with 4/5/6 story buildings and parking garage on it. The thought that such a monster would intrude into the precious and unique Del Mar Mesa Preserve, which is home to vernal pools, old-growth chaparral, and rare plants, is simply horrible.