Spoiler alert: That’s not snow in the bed of the Spring Creek arroyo; that’s salt.
Mariah was crossing the arroyo from one little “flat” slightly above the arroyo to another little flat just above the arroyo in the wider drainage just as the sun was setting, giving her that glorious, albeit dusty, glow.
It is so very dry. Yay, snowpack, but for those of us who don’t live on mountain tops, it’s been badly dry since at least last fall (or earlier? we didn’t get monsoons last year, and I’m despairing of getting them this year).
Dance, folks, like nobody but the rain gods and goddesses are watching! 🙂
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 
That’s a pretty depressing bed of alkali in your photo, TJ. Dry and more dry; that’s our status for the foreseeable. Things don’t look good for any monsoon moisture either but we can hope those prognostications are wrong; they have been before – frequently! Our only hope.
Pretty bad, right? 😦 But hey, don’t worry about it – you folks are only “abnormally dry”! Ugh. It is already dusty; things are already crackling. BLM or FS fire folks were out today. I hope they were coming up with a monitoring plan and not thinking about continuing any prescribed burns.
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🙂 Thanks!! 🙂
Hoping for rain soon!
Thank you! We really need it!
Dancing !
Thank you! 🙂
Oh noooo, so sorry to hear you are still dry. Although, we are too.
We are green on top, but put a spade in the ground and it’s dust underneath. 😦
I hope you all will get some rain.
We’re dust, top and bottom. 😦 Thanks so much, and I hope ya’ll get some rain, too!