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Reading Notes W4: Nursling the Sky Part B

Nursling the Sky Reading Notes
·     Defines the climate of California
·     It a very nature based
o  Describing different seasons: rain, snow storms, dry desert winds that occur in California
·     Quotes from text:
o  All that storms do to the face of the earth you may read in the geographies, but not what they do to our contemporaries. I remember one night of thunderous rain made unendurably mournful by the houseless cry of a cougar whose lair, and perhaps his family, had been buried under a slide of broken boulders on the slope of Kearsarge. We had heard the heavy detonation of the slide about the hour of the alpenglow, a pale rosy interval in a darkling air, and judged he must have come from hunting to the ruined cliff and paced the night out before it, crying a very human woe. I remember, too, in that same season of storms, a lake made milky white for days, and crowded out of its bed by clay washed into it by a fury of rain, with the trout floating in it belly up, stunned by the shock of the sudden flood. 
§ The passage describes the different emotion and imagery the author speaks of each season. It is detailed and gives more than just what the storms do, but what occurs when they happen. 

·     There is a lot of visuals in this reading – very open and detailed. The reader is able to visualize themselves in such seasons in California through the vivid description and telling of them. 
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