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Desert_Captain
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May 04, 2015

What the departing snowbirds are missing

Most of our snowbird guests are heading home from Arizona by now. May and especially June tend to be hot and very dry. Our weather got a huge change from normal with the premature arrival of large influx of tropical moisture, a veritable early Monsoon. Lightning lit up our skies for most of last night and continued through this morning with a third of an inch of rain falling in about 20 minutes.

My bride captured this shot of Mt Lemon (you can just barely see the ridge line in the background), from our front yard. We have had quite a bit of rain this spring and as you can see all of the plants are loving it. Note the spectacular Century plant in the center of the photo:



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  • We're not running away from the south, we're running to the north. Ain't no place prettier for 3-4 months out of the year.

    See you next winter :)

  • Desert Captain SHHHHHHHHHH Don't tell them our secret. Love the summers here without all the traffic.



















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  • Niece is home this week from Yuma (Marine Corp) and she is just so tickled to see green and trees! She says there is 1 tree every square mile and they are usually brown. She just got back from a deployment in "the desert", so she has seen way too much brown.

    That is beautiful Desert Captain. I wouldn't say it's as beautiful as our mountains, but still beautiful.
  • The deserts in bloom are awesome, stay up at night and watch the bats going from cactus flower to cactus they are neat to watch, the California deserts are brown again very little rain and the only rain came along at the wrong time and to much at once, some of the roads were mud washes.

    We were in 29 Palms last week for a funeral, everything is brown, hot and dry.

    Nice photo of Mount Lemon, been up the back side from Oracle had dinner at the top and down to Tucson for the night.

    navegator
  • Coming down your way next weekend to visit Sabino Canyon and the east side of the NP.
  • What a nice spot you gave there and wonderful view! Enjoy that 'bonus' moisture!!
    Fingers crossed Calif gets some moisture soon. Lots of small doses of moisture so they don't have to deal with the mudslides caused by deluges!!
  • We tend to arrive before and depart after those others. We've seen many instances where others don't even get the beauty of what they've planted. Your loss, Our gain!
  • Nice picture......There's always something special about desert mornings. Now if those storms would blow the other way and back toward California. Your storm only produced some morning fog in So Cal. :(