spcasm's Blog

Just today, I visited  Martinez Park since it was so  close to the 100 degree temperature

around  five  sixish hour when baseball practice gets into high swing,... the clouds were looking like  hail would be delivered fast and furious somewhere.....somewhere prob. WY or western frontrange...moving along as the big male fox came out before dark, and the three baby squirrels were bein playful across the ditch... the sun came back out from behind the ominous, huge  black  cloud that gathered up like a large UFO...so I decided time to hit the trail by the dam.  Cheak out the water run-off. Boy, yesterday it wasn't high. today, yes.

          -sure enuff the fisherman were out in full  hip boots with  their poles to see what is coming down the mountain flood/snowmelts....  water is up, yes, up 2-3 feet up the banks and under the railroad bridge so carefully landscaped, that even when the water is running fast it flows thru right UP to the edge of the concrete trail so bikers, hikers, and scooters can travel thru......As you pass thru the r.r. bridge  which is light at night with the yellow flood lights for night riders, likely to discourage wildlife from settling down there , and once in a while used for sleepers who may be homeless veterans...What a place to have to find shelter...in the hard rocks, dusty muck under the bridge supports. Of course, it does put out the heat, even after dark...

         Hopefully one day a shelter will be built for the veterans, cause  their numbers will double and triple fast within the decade...Veterans trained for war, untrained for some skilled labor positions if they went into the service after high school, means retraining on the homefront... And some love and support for their  SERVICE, please!

       So  fishers of men, get ready cause the melt is here...and will surely be increasing...the current running fast, so be careful if you decide to 'wade' in......