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| Moon lamp |
Although our temperature is heading for 89 F today, the nights are beginning to cool off enough to sense the advent of Autumn. Other signs are apparent, too, even though there are still green plants, and flowers in bloom. The wind carries a hint of the coming seasonal change, and the sun is riding somewhat lower in the sky, creating different shadow patterns on the desert mountains. I, for one, will be glad when summer ends; for one thing, I have had the worst allergies this year than in many years past.
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| Scouting for other critters |
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| Still mostly green, though yellowing out |
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| Trailing Four O'Clock |
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| Out in the desert west of Tortugas |
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| An arroyo that runs out of Tortugas |
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| Taking a shady break in the arroyo |
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| Time for my closeup |
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| Out of the arroyo and up on higher ground |
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| Small Barrel Cactus |
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| Still a few flowers on the Barrel |
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| On the outer loop road |
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| Little-leaf Sumac berries (birds love them) |
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| Another shady respite |
3 comments:
Everyone here at my place is miserable with stuffed-up noses right now. I take a psuedoephedrine tab each morning to drain my sinuses (which are chronically congested anyway).
I guess Hurricane Norbert's rain went further west and north then Las Cruces--perhaps all for the better, given what happened in Phoenix and Nevada.
Scott:
My brother and his wife, who live in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, got 2.6" of rain the other day; their property was okay, though, because their yard drains in the direction of the golf course they live on. However, there was a lot of damage in the Phoenix area. We got just a smidgen of Norbert's moisture. Here they're talking about more rain for Friday, but I haven't heard much about it yet.
I love the purple color of the trailing 4 o'clock.
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