Dreary Days

This Pacific cyclone that is soaking California has been giving us rain in Idaho.  Worse, the skies are gray.  No astrophotography.   I realize that for many fellow Americans, this is just part of fall and winter.  But I grew up in Santa Monica three blocks from the beach, where gray days ended about 1:00 PM. Even a few miles inland (in what my father called the "banana belt"), mornings were often clear.  If only 20 million conservatives could move to California, take over the state, and make it like 1965.