Sticky and Stuffy

View from the trailhead

At about 4 this morning the sky started rumbling, and all hell broke loose a bit later; we had an incredible series of thunderstorms that dumped a lot of precipitation.  The amount of rain that fell was evident later when Dr. K, Willow and I went on our daily hike.  It was obvious that water flowed through arroyos with force.  Really high humidity made the atmosphere quite sticky, and the lack of air circulation resulted in a stuffy sensation that felt more like we were indoors rather than out.

Heading down LDR-A

This & next 3:  rainwater ran hard through the arroyos today

Willow on wet sand in the left branch arroyo

Picacho and environs

Right branch arroyo

A young cactus wren

 

Above the right branch

House finches on ocotillo branches