Unexpected Rain

Just getting started and getting rained on

My weather app read 1% chance of rain this morning so Dr. K, Willow and I were quite surprised when precipitation started coming down just before we left for our daily trek.  We didn't wait for it to abate, however, leaving while the rain was falling; it was still raining when we got out of the CR-V at the trailhead.  After about one-fourth of the hike the rain gave out, and we enjoyed a fairly cool outing in our section of the northern Chihuahuan Desert.

Distant view of Picacho

Dayflowers

Rain clouds over Tortugas and the Organs

Barrel Cactus and the long view

Storm

Ocotillos

What a beauty Willow is

Barrel and buds

Raining over the Organs

Twin-leaf Senna

Green desert

 

Trailing Four O'Clock

Prickly pears

Coulter's Wrinklefruit

Another green vista

Green vista with sun rays