Comments on: no rain, no rainbows

By: [ Lost in the Landscape ] » into the wild

[ Lost in the Landscape ] » into the wild — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:31:30 +0000

[…] my last little outing to my city’s largest open-space park, before the recent rains, while I wasn’t busy looking at sycamores, I was heading up the trail to Fortuna Peak, one of […]

By: Brad B

Brad B — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:12:18 +0000

Yeah we had quite a week of rain up north as well. I was fortunate to see a double full arc rainbow over the city 2 days ago. Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera with me. We’ve used gray water in the past to water ornamentals, but we are not catching rain water, and I don’t know why not. Maybe I can hook something up before the next storm.

By: Susie

Susie — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:12:25 +0000

Rain, rain come again…we had a ton up here too, but we’ll gladly take more. After the storm goes though…nothing like it.

By: tina

tina — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:48:27 +0000

No rainbows in years? I couldn’t imagine it. I’m glad you got some rain even if it caused a few problem. Rain is good for us gardeners.

By: George

George — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:16:49 +0000

I saw some smothered rainbows too.

Water capture: my roof has a “V” section that funnels too much water for the rain gutter to fully accommodate so I put a plastic 33-gallon trash barrel underneath the spillage to catch it. One filled within an hour. Instead of draining the rain gutter onto the driveway which slopes down to the street, I divert it to the top of the small adjacent gravelly slope where cypress trees and junipers grow. That small slope ends at the street but I’ve never seen much excess drainage to the street so most of the runoff from that gutter ends up underground I think. I never water those plants during the year.

I wouldn’t mind another week-long storm series like this, maybe one for February, one for March, and one more in April. Then top it off with a few light showers in May.

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