Winter is... here.

Sort of! Winter temps have actually been rather mild so my whines lack my usual, mmm... intensity! Even so, the temps have been getting down into the upper 20's most nites. And it has been clear so I had to be sure to grab this shot with a little moisture in the air.

A little pre-dawn color.

This is a pretty good time of year for me to catch a glimpse of dawn colors. In just a few weeks I'll have to be up before 0500 to see this... and that ain't gonna happen!

And the Cactus Garden continues to be a nice pause on my morning walk. Always nice to take a short break on the provided bench and enjoy the shade of the mesquite tree.


The cactus garden- a favorite stop on my morning walk.

And just to confirm, yes- we did recently get a little of the white stuff. The park at about 3,600' elevation is at a sufficiently low elevation to miss the chance to look like Minnesota. Now they got hammered.
 

Pretty scant snowfall but we did get some this week.

The last of some moisture here in San Pedro Valley. January saw 2.57" of rain. Which is actually pretty surprising. No snowfall so far this year. "Snow fall" here in San Pedro Valley means something like 1/8" to 1/2" of snow (though we have seen as much as 2" of snow here) which disappears right after sunrise.

Our across-the-street neighbor just arrived yesterday from Washington state. Note the muddy corner on his travel trailer- bet he was glad to have arrived safely!

Snowbirds are getting settled for the winter here at SKP Saguaro Co-op with more people arriving every day. From what I have seen of US weather news I suspect they are happy to have gotten away from home states that are in the North of the US! The US has just had a significant snow storm (about 27 Jan 2026?) that hit a lot of those Northern states. Weather here in San Pedro Valley often has nothing to do with what happens in the rest of the US!

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