Hurricane Alert

Watching two runners heading up the mountain road

Hurricane Blanca is pushing toward Baja California and, according to Doppler Dave Spielman--meteorologist at KVIA (ABC Channel 7) out of El Paso, Texas--it will deposit enough moisture in the desert Southwest to give us a good chance of rain and thunderstorms by late weekend/early next week.  Temperatures will drop from the mid- to high-90s to the low- to mid-80s.  We certainly will welcome any precipitation we can get as long as it's not destructive.

Heading into the outback

Ground-eye view of a wide arroyo

Turkey Vulture directly overhead

Same arroyo. looking toward Tortugas (Tortoise) Mountain

Organ Mountains with gauzy clouds above

Soaptree Yucca flowers, Organ Mountains in background

Sandy shade break

West of the Tortoise

Tortugas and the Organs

Behind the mountain near a rock shelter

Desert flora above a small cave

Becca surveilling the mountain above

On break beside a Little-leaf Sumac