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Rainy, Windy Beginning to February

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Wondering what I'm up to I guess.      This was on of three or four raccoons in this group of trees who greeted me as I walked through the campground one evening when the campground was closed due to a storm on February 4. That storm was not the first one of the month though. On February 1, we had the single highest 24 hour rainfall since we've been recording it.   4.1" of rain, February 1, 2024 Looking downstream at high flowing Lagunitas Creek. And looking upstream. Closeup of water coming out of a pipe in the back of the previous picture. Wild Cat Canyon Creek and its West Fork, February 1. This is the water that eventually goes through that pipe. February 1, 2024 Wild Cat Canyon Creek waterfall by my morning bench. The prettiest water fall in the park on February 1. Measured at over six feet at the old dam site on Lagunitas Creek.     The weather forecast for pretty much all of California for February 4th was pretty ominous, and though we didn't get as much rain as