March 6, 2023, 6:30pm: "Learning, Processing & Musing, re: things imperceptible to human beings."
About this podcast. This audio was recorded, re: an experiment I ran while dog sitting for a friend with large canopy trees in Buda, Texas. This was recorded while walking my friend Julie's dog, Merle; first on Remuda Trail, then Oxbow. The experiment: I watered large canopy rootballs and all manner of leaf stomata around Julie's home for about 80-minutes on March 5, because it appeared possible to "bring" rain within a few days. We got rain the very next morning on March 6.
"Bringing the rain?" Several things were amazing about this:
- Rainfall patterning mimicked a lighter version of the "green rains" i think i've catalyzed in central Austin, TX (2019), south Austin (2022), northwest Dripping Springs, TX (2022), and central Colusa, CA (2022).
- A moisture system appeared over Julie's house for this rain event, green fog essentially. See Vimeo, "Shocked in Buda": https://vimeo.com/905955508
- Not only was this rain unforecast, it didn't appear on my iPhone weather app when occurring.
- Furthermore, it appeared to have rained only over Julie's home, essentially repeating the 2022 incident in Dripping Springs at lesser scale. Important Note: this rain occurred coming out of winter and the deciduous trees around the house are mostly leafless, still. I have since seen implications of trunk-triggered and conifer-stomata triggered rain events in cold months, multiple times, in Dripping Springs. It qppears to me at this moment (Jan. 24, 2024, writing these notes) highly likely that deciduous and conifer trees alternate their rainfall attraction roles according to weather. Put simply: Deciduous in the warm months, Conifer in the cold. Julie's property has near-field conifers as well.
This property. What's most unique about Julie's property is she had been nurturing her multi-acre landscape for wildlife, biodiverse soils and ground cover (not carpet grass), native plant regrowth, and regenerative/organic food gardening for roughly 10 years, by this time. Her landscape is most-likely suburban oasis, as moisture sinks and moisture-sharing organisms goes, relative to the other properties in her town.
This town. Lastly, her town: Buda, TX, had at this time exceptional tree canopy connectivity across the entire area. This may have since been disrupted by massive population growth, but that green infrastructure (intactness), in Buda, in based on the preservation of large, old-growth, Texas Live Oak trees. Mature Red Oaks and large, old-growth Texas Live Oaks, so far, appear to be the most catalytic of all the trees I've worked with. Buda has dozens of priceless trees, in this regard, alone.
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All notes by me, Chris Searles.
founder/creator, Rainmakers
founder/director, BioIntegrity
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