Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And down in Kern County cotton is still a very serious crop. Driving on I-5 in the autumn you'll see cotton blowing across the highway and immense vast bales of cotton stacked high for shipping. Cotton takes water. The Sierra collect lots of water so it was natural to use it. We also grow a serious amount of rice. In fact they are harvesting rice just down I-80 where it crosses the Yolo Bypass, a vast flat flood plane used as overflow for the Sacramento River during the winter and spring for flood control. Those fields are now filled with egrets and herons feasting on whatever small critters are exposed as the harvesters pass over the fields. These rice fields sit adjacent to a wild-life preserve where a flock of white pelicans have moved in for a stay. If the bike path were on the south side I'd get some great photos but it's on the north side. Drat. A huge nesting of Mexican Brown Bats also live under the causeway doing their bit to keep down the mosquito population. With the rise of West Nile virus not a whole lot of folks are complaining about the bats. Adam On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:01 PM, slobodan dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: > CA was seen as a Southern state. > We even inherited Southern agriculture after the war. > The first big cash crop to make money for Sacramento was King Cotton. > s.d. > > > On Sep 7, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > >> At 07:28 PM 9/7/2008, you wrote: >>> >>> whence the name "alabama hills"? >>> >>> --brad >> >> From Wikipedia: >> >> The Alabama Hills were named for >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama>CSS >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama>Alabama. When news of the >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America>Confederate >> warship's exploits reached prospectors in California sympathetic to the >> Confederates, they named many mining claims after her, and the name came >> to >> be applied to the entire mountain >> range.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Hills#cite_note-kyle-0>[1] >> Then, >> when Alabama was sunk off the coast of >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy>Normandy by >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_%281861%29>USS >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_%281861%29>Kearsarge in 1864, >> prospectors sympathetic to the North named a mining district, >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_pass>mountain pass, a peak, and a >> town after >> Kearsarge.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Hills#cite_note-kyle-0>[1] >> >> Those Confederates again!! ;-) >> >> Tina >> >> Tina Manley >> www.tinamanley.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >