Snow In The Desert

I'm somewhat tempted to complain about the weather. It is, after all, the desert and one is entitled to some expectations about what sort of weather one will encounter. Specifically, one tends to expect March to present hot and sunny pool-lounging weather. It has been, however, cold and stormy. There've been some crazy winds whipping the palm trees about, heavy rains and cold temperatures. Cold for the desert I should say. Over the weekend the highs on the valley floor were only in the mid-50's (oh the agony!) and there was actually a whole pile of snow deposited at higer elevations. Which, even those most put out by the "bad" weather must admit, is pretty stunning and beautiful. Luckily the storm seems to have moved along and I managed to get one last lovely day out of my week here before leaving tomorrow. So today was spent doing this:


While looking at this:


Not sooooooo aweful after all.