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So the monsoon is here. It arrives in this area over the Mexican border, roiling up over the mountains to the south. With the added humidity and lowered temperatures arrive previously covert lifeforms. One evening driving home I watched a surreal-but-real black spider the size of a housecat scuttling across route 80. I could [...] So a few Sundays ago Maggie The Wonder Dog and I went a bit further than our usual walk. There was this line going up the ridge to the west of the house that I was curious about. An older dog that sometimes tags along had slept through our departure, so we had [...] A month ago I left the effete, cold, and moist east coast with a U-Haul trailer full of Very Important Stuff (junk?) and landed in Tucson, where I just finished a month-long push to get my real estate license. I’m going to be working in cowboy-land, along the Mexican border. No photos yet, but [...] If you haven’t been to the Southwest in the summer, you might conjure up a dry dessicated season here. That describes late spring, but in the mid-summer we start getting massive importations of water from both oceans. Water evaporates out of those bodies, peregrinates thousands of miles over large sections of the continent then [...] |
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