photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory
Its been a dry spring in Virginia. Limited April showers have resulted in challenging conditions for plants. I’ve been drip irrigating juveniles in CHO. In the Tidewater there is a group of a few hundred adolescent trees I look after.
Rain began falling at 1430 hours
Between 1430 and 1830 six inches of rain came down.
It’s pretty flat in Slabtown. 
takes awhile to soak in 
sheet flow in the yard
My daughter is in Nassau, the National Hurricane Center is working with partial staff secondary to the government shutdown. I thought I’d inquire of Gemini (Google AI) what threat Hurricane Melissa posed to the Bahamas. When I was posing the question yesterday morning, Melissa had already made a mess of Jamaica and was chewing on Cuba. Gemini’s answer is below:
Does Grok has ongoing training? Grok 1, Gemini 0
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies is of little help. Will people do like they do everything nowadays, watch on their phones?
all things wet and wonderful