On St. Patrick’s Day in Disappointment Valley, we had a bit of gold under the rainbow (and yes, it was sprinkling when I took these pix (above with my phone; below with my camera)).
In Disappointment Valley (which includes Spring Creek Basin), WATER is the treasure! In our case, there’s a whole lotta mud under that rainbow right now, and we’re feeling pretty rich. 🙂
(And yes, these pix were taken the evening of St. Patrick’s Day – no kidding!)
As I type this Monday night, to publish this morning, we’re still hoping that the chance of rain overnight is actually going to prove accurate and that we might wake up to mud.
Cassidy Rain is already ready for mud.
Sweet Alegre was feeling the sleepies on a breezy winter afternoon that wasn’t too nippy.
Who’s ready to take a nap with Tenaz? 🙂
This was the morning after our recent rain/snow event. As illustrated by the image, the lower elevations got rain, and the upper elevations got only a spattering of snow – and it melted pretty quickly. A sign of how dry we are is that even with the rain, the ground soaked it up, and it wasn’t *that* muddy. … It was a little muddy … but almost more “tacky” than actually muddy.
Seneca rouses long enough from her nap to look at a band across the little arroyo between her band and that band. Then she went back to sleep. With a high temp that day at 50 degrees, conditions were lovely for a nice nap!
The ground was VERY muddy, but it’s mostly free of snow now. The 95 percent chance we had a few days ago resulted in zero snow (ZERO! how does that happen?!). Now the forecast is giving us about 40 percent chance of rain or snow today and tomorrow. We have to remain optimistic.
Maia gives me a perfectly beautiful look with Temple Butte lit up with evening light against a bit of a cloudy sky (likely snow farther to the southeast at higher elevation). Beauty and beauty.
Sweet ‘n curious, that’s our girl Rowan. 🙂
Well, we kinda got skunked again on snow – the big, hyped, “inches and inches are coming!” winter-weather-warning snowfall – yesterday, but we do have snow on the ground still from Friday’s surprise event – thank goodness. We got no measurable snow from Sunday, though we did have a couple of brief waves of blowing flakes, and there was snow all around Disappointment Valley.
The following pix are of snow/ice crystals on grass stalks and sagebrush in Spring Creek Basin on Friday.
It was so much more beautiful and magical than I can convey in photos.
If complaining about lack of snow leads to more unforecast snow in the future, I’ll do it!
After Thursday’s bomb, snow-wise, our next big snowfall was supposed to be Sunday (today). Snow Friday night/Saturday morning was NOT in the forecast – until late Friday night. But with no tell-tale blue blobs in the vicinity Friday night, I went to bed thinking it was wrong or wouldn’t amount to anything.
Saturday morning, I woke up to 2 inches of glorious snow! Please, chuckle along with me at the forecasters. As high-tech as weather forecasting is these days, even they don’t always get it right. 🙂
Mother Nature still rules, and as surprises go, this was an awesome one!
I schedule all my posts at least the evening ahead of their publication time, so I don’t always see into the future, either. With any luck – and good forecasting – we’ll be waking up to (more) snow, as has been in the forecast for the past week!
You’ve heard the phrase “doughnut hole” in weather-related conversation? How one place or another is in a “doughnut hole” of NOT getting weather the surrounding area or region is getting or has gotten?
Disappointment Valley (at least the lower part) got a skiff or less of snow Thursday morning (no measurable liquid). It was gone (melted) before you could even say “doughnut hole.” A friend west of Cortez (south of Disappointment) got 4 inches of snow. A friend right in Durango got 6 inches! Friends in Aztec, New Mexico (northern New Mexico not far south of Durango), got 3.5 inches of snow. … You see where I’m going with this?
Yeah, it’s a thing.
That’s Disappointment Road looking south. This is the afternoon of the morning it snowed – “snowed” – ha.
‘Course, at the same time, we had THIS view (to the east-southeastish). 🙂 (Note the lack of snow.) That could be a definition of “silver lining.” 😉
(Next forecast snowfall: tomorrow!)
Spring Creek Basin Mustangs 