hummingcrow: one squall voice

 

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More little things for Ru and all my pals who find the Arizona monsoon / oven season exotic. Yesterday was a beautiful day!
Aside: Before you think we’re heathens, we’re draining our pool because we’ve been unable to de-cloud the water this season even though the pool chemistry numbers were right where they were supposed […]

 

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Last year around this time, I made a video showing rain evaporating off the sidewalk. Ru liked it and reminded me of it recently. So when I found myself on the same porch stoop with some light rain falling, I made another video. Just for you, Ru.

 

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A little video moment recorded with my iPhone. Horrible audio - you probably want to turn the volume down. If you can’t understand me, I’m basically saying that the arrival yesterday of our first monsoon storm of the year began with a lightning strike that ignited a brush fire on the Gila Indian Reservation southwest […]

 

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Awhile back we had one of those days so rare in the Sonoran desert, the kind where it rains lightly all day long. Those are the days when it seems like father sky is at his most tender, lingering for long slow kisses with mother earth. These special days are infused with an extra vividness […]

 

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Montezuma Well is a limestone sinkhole in central Arizona, but it’s much more than that. It’s a constant source of water in the desert, for one. The Yavapai people believe they emerged into this world from within the Well. It is their ancestor. It reveals some of the history of previous civilizations. It harbors a […]