Sunday, June 17, 2018

It rained!!!!

 June 16 -- one day before monsoon season officially starts and we had rain for the first time in over 100 days.  It was funny to listen to the meteorologists get excited about "potential" rainfall headed our way.  Yes, we can say it rained here but it wasn't even a measurable amount in our rain gauge.

There was a promising cloudy sky for the first time in months.


Today we are back to our normal clear brilliant blue sky.


It is a gorgeous morning at a cool 74 degrees with a light breeze.  Love it!!

The palm trees have had a very healthy year as evidenced by their thick foliage and heavy blossoms.  I'll be glad when the landscape crew gets to our trees for trimming as all those flower petals come down like white snow.  We call it Arizona snow.


I don't have a strong telescopic lens for my cell phone camera but all the little black dots you see amid the blossoms are bees.  Every tree is loaded with them.  You can actually hear them buzzing under each tree.


While we had our "rain storm" yesterday, I saw a dove flapping around in the street.  At first I thought it was injured but further observation proves he was just taking a shower and enjoying the cooling rain.


Watch the dove in this little video.  He was loving it.  LOL



Every Saturday night, folks gather in the Adobe room for an evening of card bingo.  There were 42 players who showed up last night.  They waved to say hello.




Thank you to Avis Gray for hosting Saturday night bingo and helping to keep us summer folks entertained.


That's all the news for today.  Looks like a beautiful week ahead.
We'll definitely be enjoying morning coffee out on the patio!  Early morning Pickleball players and golfers will have perfect weather.