Pearson 1983 50 Oct.26 Barabets. Winter sparkling, no wind, not cold. Drove off Cane Otto. Otto making war at the military rifle range. Walked with him to his house and took his pictures. Two condors went over. Otto said there need to be many more. The leaves have are out but still lots of snow drifts on the south slopes, a few Scotch broom blossoming and a few yellow lilacs. In town today is the tulip festival. Everyone still talking about the half-meter of snow that fell in late September in town. Revisited my amaryllis lily photo site near the microwave tower on Cane Otto. No snow remaining. The ground quite "bare", melting green and blasted with dried leaves and with dried stems of amaryllis lying flat. No new amaryllis shoots and [illegible] and only a few old earth cores, but many amaryllis shoots just below the surface of the ground; In other places amaryllis were up. Lots of earth cores in different places including among Barbair's pereai, but nowhere did we see dense networks of cores. In some place amaryllis were coming up of the edge of snow banks. Why not up yet at the photo site where the snow is all gone? At one place the snow was sprinkled with Elso-Elso (as well as ? leaves & twigs). This would keep the Elso-Elso in cold storage until the