Almost Complete Cloud Cover

Sky at start

It was about 45F and completely cloudy when I started off this morning, and the clouds never lifted during a long morning trek; in fact, I got sprinkled on a few times during my hike.  At one moment I got a bit worried that it would start raining harder and I would have to go to Target and Albertsons soaking wet.  Fortunately, that didn't happen.

What did happen, though, was I got slightly wet both going into the stores and coming out of them.  I didn't get soaked by any means, but I got wetter than I had out at Tortugas Mountain.

There's a Desert Cottontail in this photo

This is that cottontail

Favorite sandy spot

Road south

A long view

Bushwhacking

The gap

This and the next:  Organ Mountains

Loggerhead Shrike