Feb. 3rd, 2006

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Yesterday the Seattle Times reported that this past January in Seattle was the wettest in 53 years. We had 11.65 inches of rain, which is quite a lot of rain in an area that averages 36 inches a year. The article mentions the various lifeforms that benefit from such heavy rainfall in January, including frogs, salamanders, huckleberries, and mushrooms, but the one that caught my eye was dragonflies: "The insects lay their eggs in shallow ponds and lakes .... In recent years, many of those water bodies, especially in Eastern Washington, have shriveled up before the larvae could mature."

The heavy rains mean that there should be enough water in these shallow basins for a bumpercrop of dragonflies this year. Dragonflies are really cool. All is forgiven.

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