Sprinkled Upon

Looking out from the Grand View Trail

Becca and I awoke this morning to lightning, thunder and rain, but it let up long enough for us to begin a hike on the Grand View Trail.  It was so humid it felt as if we were trekking in a sauna.  Then the rain started again.  It never came down hard enough to really soak us, but we did get spat upon for most of the hike.  We ran into only one guy on the trail, a jogger whose t-shirt was thoroughly sopping with sweat.  After our hike Becca and I headed down the mountain for our desert home.

I thought we were done getting rained on

The gypsum lake of White Sands National Monument

Grazing in the high desert

Sotols in bloom

Steady descent

Cactus out of rock

Buffalo Gourd (and beetle friend)

Buffalo Gourd (aks Missouri Gourd or Coyote Gourd) is a perennial vine