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Nature Notes. A Rare Tree. Part 1. Storm in the Night

Janice KirkSeptember 9th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: aspen grove, chipmunks, conifer forest, coyote, elderberry, ground squirrels, lightning, lightning scar, Mule's Ears, osprey, Ponderosa Pine, sage, sagebrush, Warner Mountains CA, wildflowers|

Photo: Lightning Scar on Ponderosa Pine Tree From the files of Donald R. Kirk... [...]

Out Sketching. Flow Patterns. Part 2. What to Look For

Janice KirkAugust 5th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: bighorn sheep, branching, bubbles, Cirrus clouds, curving flow, drawing pencils, dust devil, flow patterns, foam, funnel clouds, Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, lightning, meander, radial, ripples, river current, spirals, Stratocumulus clouds, tide-lines, undulatus, vortex, water patterns, water spout, waves, whirlpools|

Part 2. My last posting related how I first became aware of flow patterns in [...]

Nature Notes. Fulgurites. Part 2. Sitting on a Fulgurite

Janice KirkDecember 8th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: fulgurites, lightning, rock fulgurite, Warner Mountains CA|

Continued from the files of Don Kirk... ...The fulgurites here are light gray in [...]

Nature Notes. Fulgurites. Part 1. Fulgurite Find

Janice KirkDecember 1st, 2016|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: fulgurites, lightning, rock fulgurite, Warner Mountains CA|

From the files of Don Kirk... About 100 lightning strikes occur every second on planet [...]