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| Starting out under cloudy skies |
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| Close to the arroyo on the mountain's west side |
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| The desert doesn't seem quite as harsh |
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| What's keeping you? |
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| Something's burning in the distance |
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| Bishop Cap |
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| Acacia in bloom |
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| A stand of elegant Ocotillo |
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| Semi-ripe Prickly Pear has me rethinking the coyote scat grape question |
4 comments:
Colors and light uncharacteristically muted today, Packrat. Floods wouldn't be as good for the desert as long, slow steady rain, but floods would help fill the Rio Grande.
I've never heard of a meteorological "first alert." Is this something you made up, or is it a potential danger level created by the weather service? How high do the levels get? Third alert? Fifth alert?
"First Alert" is a term our local meteorologists use to give a first warning about the severity of upcoming weather events. I can't say whether it's standard terminology, but there seem to be plenty of First Alert weather teams on the internet.
The desert here is already somewhat saturated, so heavy rains would not be a good thing. As you suggest "slow steady rain" is the way to go.
So was the "grape" that you saw last time actually part of a prickly pear?
I think it was, Dr. K, an unripe Prickly Pear.
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