The poor pinon tree shows the effects of this summer’s terrible drought (in a long stretch of years of drought), but behind Chipeta, rain was moving across the southeastern/eastern horizon while the sun was setting, shining a lovely bit of light on her.
The forecast was wrong again; we GOT rain yesterday. I love it when it’s wrong in the positive. 🙂
😁 Same here, TJ! We got rain last night when we weren’t supposed to. I like that kind of wrong forecast! That dying pinion reminds me of all the 360 some pinions that we lost to drought in the 90’s. Even more unbelievable is that Denny cut them all down in his spare time! It was like a second non-paying lumberjack job.
Not a fun job, I’d imagine. There are more and more every year. It’s a sad sight. … Very glad of your rain, too, and we’ve gotten another little drizzle today!
Pretty pinto gal! So glad for the rain! Nature does what it wants to do no matter what the forecast is! They should just say our best guess is!
Too true! When I was at A&M, I had some class (?) in the “meteorology” building, and there was a sign over the inside front doors that same something like meteorology being the only job where you could get paid to be wrong 80 percent of the time. I’ve never forgotten that. 🙂
It’s been raining off and on for two days here. We’re confused.
No doubt! My mud boots had to be cleared of spider webs before I could put them on. 🙂 Great about your rain!