I want some coffee!

  Like all the Fall/Winter/Spring seasons that have preceded this one, it's also the season of the Snowbird.  Junco- the real snowbird according to the National Audubon Society Unlike the photo above a snowbird can also be a critter that takes flight in the fall and doesn't land until late spring flowers are on the trees and bushes. Their wings are their RV. Or maybe just a car with overnight lodging at a motel or a relatives house.  Before the USA pissed all over the Canadians with our politics they were frequent winter visitors here in SKP Saguaro Co-op and in Benson. Dunno about this year but those Canadian dollars were (are?) an important percentage of the annual budget for this park.  The reality is I've launched into something I'm not qualified to address since Economics was my worst subject in college. Mmm... actually that's not true. My worst grade was in Business Law. So apparently my son had his genetics-cards stacked against him when he chose to become ...

A rainbow! Inferred proof we had a little bit of wet stuff. Benson got some rain! Not monsoons yet... that doesn't happen till early July. It's been months but it finally happened. And today was perhaps the 3rd time this month of March 2025 that it has happened. The poor old weather gauge feature for measuring rainfall is apparently plugged with tumble weeds or maybe a bird's nest and refuses to give us a reading. But I know wet concrete when I see it so I don't need a rain gauge for confirmation! Conveniently the landscaping crew had made a pass thru a couple days ago and took out some weeds and about 5+ unwanted yucca plants. All prettied-up for this photo-op.