White flash white hit. Tutorials. Photo editor online / free image editing direct in your browser - Pixlr.com. jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library. ROME. Mr.doob's blog. 3 Dreams of Black. Mrdoob/three.js - GitHub. Chrome Experiments - Home. HTML5 Rocks - A resource for open web HTML5 developers. HTML5 Presentation. In March 1936, an unusual confluence of forces occurred in Santa Clara County.
A long cold winter delayed the blossoming of the millions of cherry, apricot, peach, and prune plum trees covering hundreds of square miles of the Valley floor. Then, unlike many years, the rains that followed were light and too early to knock the blossoms from their branches. Instead, by the billions, they all burst open at once. Seemingly overnight, the ocean of green that was the Valley turned into a low, soft, dizzyingly perfumed cloud of pink and white. Uncounted bees and yellow jackets, newly born, raced out of their hives and holes, overwhelmed by this impossible banquet. Then came the wind. It roared off the Pacific Ocean, through the nearly uninhabited passes of the Santa Cruz Mountains and then, flattening out, poured down into the great alluvial plains of the Valley.