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The dry season has started and the grass has turned to straw. Which also means that there is plenty of flammable material everywhere. Please don’t start fires.

If you look closely, you can spot a private dirt strip in this picture.

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The Calaveras Airport Day was a success this year because the weather was fairly good. I made a short video showing some of the activity:

https://vimeo.com/1081168617?share=copy

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It is becoming warmer and I went a local flight in Caro 1.

View to the southeast, the air is humid and it is a bit hazy. Only over the higher mountains were some thermals.

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Rob Holland was one of the most dedicated and talented aerobatic pilots I knew and I had watched his awesome performances many times at Oshkosh. I lost track of how often he was the US national aerobatic champion in the Unlimited category. So it is even more puzzling what could have happened to take his life so recently.

This was at Oshkosh more than 10 years ago.

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I had time to go flying on a very nice day, here are some pictures.

This is near Oakdale, there is plenty of water in the creek this time of the year.

This area has a lot of almond plantations. They are unfortunately monocultures with all trees of the same species and biodiversity is eliminated. It could be different, even 10 years ago there were some areas in between with other trees and more diverse plants.

I could imagine that the spaces between the almond trees could be used for growing other things, vegetables for example, at least during the wet season because the soil is quite fertile.

Until then, almonds are all you can see (or walnuts).

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