Hot Thursday Hike

Beach bunny

We did a long hike around Tortugas Mountain this morning, and we ran into a few other hikers.  One of them was Jimmy, a native Las Crucen.  We got to talking about how dry everything is, and he said he could only remember one other time when it was this dry in the Mesilla Valley--during a bad drought in the 1950s. Of the current drought, he said, "It could rain steadily for a week and it wouldn't be enough."  So true.  It's scary dry here now.

What's that pose?

Incredibly dry landscape

Smoke from the Arizona fires still visible