My favorite cactus in the backyard bloomed again this week. This bloom is open when we get up at 5:30 a.m. By noon it is finished.



We've had several good rains in the past week. Here is an approaching thunderhead. This storm was 15-20 miles away. The clouds overhead were produing a drizzle--and out to the west the sun was about to set and able to shine under the layer of clouds. Voila! A rainbow.


This is a shot from the following day. Overhead were swirling black clouds, but off to the east was this brief blue-sky opening with a growing thunderhead illimunated, again by a low sun in the west.