I want some coffee!

 ... right from the git-go. Looking to the South. Looked threatening but it was all bluster. Rainy season (properly monsoons) are technically over for the year. But weather being weather it gets to do what it wants. And a little more bluster the next morning. But that's all we got. So the best move was to ignore the weather. The weather gods were apparently offended and stopped entertaining me. Those clouds down against the horizon dissipated not long after I got this shot. It's Fall now and dawn is much later- so we made a change. I was given a diet plan by a nutritionist in Key West maybe 20 years ago. That plan said I was to first eat my meal, then sometime in the 15 min to 2 hr interval which follows I was to walk for at least 10 min. I did that for a time while living in the Florida Keys then later in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Then we discovered RVs and 3 walks per day after meals went out the window till we landed in Southeast Arizona. But Arizona weather drove me to do a lon...

Dawn after some rain Yeah- the morning after. The morning after a bit of rain here in the San Pedro Valley.  July & August, normally the first and second months of our three month long monsoon season, were disappointing. Then along came September... September (if I remember the rain gauge readings!) managed almost 2" of the wet stuff. Excellent! Not enough to fix the drought but much appreciated none the less. The photo above is looking East toward the Dragoon Mountains as the sun was about to put in a wet-ish appearance. You can see the wet streak down the road-center of the 300 row. And yes... I'm a sucker for sunrise and sunset photos! Here are a few more gratuitous sunrise/sunset shots from San Pedro Valley... The Dragoons in the distance, to the East across the San Pedro Valley Another morning shot off to the Southwest. Our back yard neighbor is Paula who enjoys these 'pixie-lights' around her lot