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 [...]
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 [...]
Winter monsoon is now playing in Tucson, it’s been just as rainy and cold as a late fall in the northeast. There are oddities that are place-specific, as happened yesterday when I was under lightning and being hailed on while in traffic, while watching a sunset in the mirror. I posted a new album [...]
Or maybe leafhugger is more accurate. This photo taken late summer 2007.