I want some coffee!

Summer has been (at least to this point!), mmm... tolerable. So far (as singer Lenny Kravitz said "it ain't over till it's over!") we've stayed out of the over-110° range down here about 60 miles North of the US/Mexico border. Definitely a 'kind' summer for us.  And during that time we've seen better rainfall (called monsoons in these parts) than most of us feared. Our handy-dandy Davis Weather station says we've had 8.25" of rain since 1 July. That's about 3/4" less than I had expected... about 3" of rain per month in July, August and September. And that should be (predictably!) about what I post here every year near this time! And just to add to to the atmosphere (!) of this post, here is an almost-rainy shot off to the SSE of the park. In fact you can still see the wet streak down the middle of our road from the T-storm that passed thru earllier.   Spotted just about sunset off to the Southeast of the park All good here at SKP...

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.