NOT IN MY LIFETIME

Not sure who shot these pictures but my knitting friend Aileen sent them to me.

I'm pretty sure they were taken from either 

Long Beach, San Pedro or Santa Monica Harbors.

You can see Los Angeles in the left hand distance

 and the San Gabriel Mountains in the far distance. 

I have never in my life seen so much snow on our mountains,

ever!

In this shot above you can barely see the Hollywood sign,

and below,

 an even closer shot of it along with the crazy amount of snowfall we got. 

Sadly we haven't even been able to reach our cabin at 5000 ft.

The roads were closed for several days and our only grocery store's roof

 was caved in along with several other stores in our tiny little city of Crestline.

And more rain and snow is predicted this Wednesday.

Many of the full time residents there are without food and their medicines.

It's been a nightmare for them.

OUR CALIFORNIA SNOW PACK JUST KEEPS GETTING DEEPER

This is Big Bear Mountain in the San Bernardino National Forest Range

 after our last big snow a couple of weeks ago.

I took this picture on our way up to our cabin last Thursday.

Our cabin is at 5000 feet in Crestline and we had tiny patches of dirty snow

when we got there.

Big Bear is at 8805 feet and is one of Southern California's favorite Ski Resorts

with a lot more excepted today.

As I scanned the horizon and turned in the opposite direction,

I was able to get a great picture of the San Gabriel Mountain Range.

The city of Wrightwood is located there 

with Mountain High being its Ski Resort at 8200 feet.

Not quite as crowded or popular as Big Bear 

but the perfect resort to learn how to ski at.

When we got to our cabin last week,

one of the first things I looked for 

was any water run off in our streams.

It's still a bit too chilly for much being in the 20's, 30's and 40's.

We have a stream next to our property that has a tiny trickle right now

 and too difficult to really take a decent picture of.

But this stream above is much more beautiful and about a 1/2 mile walk from us 

in a neighborhood called Valley of the Moon.

It had a bit more water streaming down the rocks

and some lovely moss/lichens beginning to grow.

It's such a peaceful place to sit and listen to the water run.

Another huge storm partially moved in yesterday 

with a lot of snowfall expected. 

Today its really coming down.

We were going to go up but now are taking a pass,

we don't want to get snowed in.