IT'S A GOOD DAY...

... to stay home in Hollywood, CA. As we must do anyway, to avoid further spread of the coronavirus.

We are enjoying a very solid late season rain. It has been raining all night, and is still raining this morning. I used an umbrella to take Jake out for his his morning walk. It sheltered me, but poor Jake was up to his knees in the water cascading down from higher up the hill.

I have been living in this same location at the east end of the Hollywood Hills here since 1969, and I can't recall a rain like this in April. Still, as always in Southern California, the rain is welcome--except when it's fierce enough to cause those sometimes dreadful mudslides. After years of less than average precipitation, and sometimes barely any at all, it helps to make a dent in the persistent drought...