A Slight Chill

Getting a really early start

Becca and I headed out for Tortugas Mountain really early this morning, and it was quite chilly for mid-May.  It warmed up a bit during our trek--owing perhaps to physical exertion--but when we stopped to talk to our buddy Jimmy on the way back it still seemed pretty cool.  I heard the high for Chicago today will be only 51F; and a few days ago it was snowing in my hometown of Youngstown, Ohio.  I heard recently that the new term for climate change and global warming is "climate disruption."  That seems about right; we're disrupting our climate, and our illustrious leaders are unwilling to do anything substantive about it.

White-winged Doves on Buggy Whip wands

Higher ground

Not a UFO, but rather a White-winged Dove

Flank of Tortugas and the Organ Mountains beyond

Keeping a watchful eye

Galaxy of yellow flowers

Looks like rain (and we did get a little later)

Peace

Soaptree Yucca west of Tortugas Mountain

Blooming out

Soon-to-be bell-shaped flowers

Virga

At first I thought this was a hawk over captured prey

It turned out to be hawk-shaped wood

Long way back to Tortugas and the Organs

Want a little sky with those clouds?

Yucca flowers and observatory

More Soaptree Yuccas

And still more

Old and the new