Santa Rosa Creek

We've had a few showers, but the storm has moved south allowing us to start to dry out. We walked down to the creek where we met Cindy and Bruce who live on the creek just below here and were checking out the new log jam which appeared on the left side of the creek. We speculated that the fellow who lives further up the creek on a private road cut down a lot of trees to make way for rebuilding his house and that those logs washed down the creek and got stuck at this point. It cost Cindy and Bruce $20,000 to remove all the logs from the huge jam just below their house.

This one isn't on their property but nobody is sure whose property it is.
At one point the water rose above its banks and covered the island in the middle of the creek.

Nobody seems to be in charge of what happens in these creeks and there are no guidelines for clearing the creek of the huge amount of debris that gets washed down as a result of fires, PG&E tree felling and reconstruction further up the creek. 

I finally made it to the fabric store to get the main fabric for the body of my coat. They didn't have the fabric I have been using for my 'practice' stars, but they had the same design in a different color that I think will be better anyway. The lighting in that store is terrible and it was particularly bad today because the sky was so dark, but it cleared up on the way home and I was treated to blue sky, sun and puffy white clouds. (extra).Everyone was out with their dogs, children in strollers, on foot or various conveyances enjoying the sun.

It was only three days, but we got a LOT of rain out of very dark clouds, it didn't seem very safe to drive around in the deluge and everybody was hunkered down inside so it seemed a lot longer....

I'm still playing around with my design but I will show progress, or lack thereof, as I go along....