MONSOONS ARE AMAZING.......bringing life to the desert

MONSOON SUNSET 14"T X 11"W
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I have lived in the Southwest long enough to know that liquor is made for drinking and water is made for fighting over.  With a seven year long drought in these here parts it is getting pretty dang dry........

All I can say is BRING ON THE RAIN!!!!!!!

I hold my breath every year when the spring winds blow and the heat rises, drying out the forest and parching the plants.  My trees begin to look like sticks with barely any life.  They brown up and drop leaves to preserve their energy.  This is forest fire time.  I think back to last year when we had two major fires in our area, and we lost our 19 hotshots in the Yarnell Hill fire... and I lament "Lord when does the rain start."

The month of July has brought us the blessed relief we have all been praying for, with the arrival of the Monsoons.  We have gotten about 4 1/2" at our house in the mountains north of Phoenix, double what is normal for this season.  That makes this a great monsoon so far with another month to go.

I feel the moisture coming back to the blush of my skin, my hair is full and soft; my eyes twinkle. My whole body drinks in the succulent drops of luscious nectar that falls from the sky. A joyful spring is in my step as I dance through puddles, and the 4 year old comes spilling out of me.

This is a MONSOON.

The skies crack open with the sound of thunder, dark clouds descend toward the ground as white tops billow above.  The wind picks up and swirls the dusty leaves, whirlwinds scour the desert floor and walls of dust form haboobs as high as a 747.

This is a MONSOON.

Billowy clouds turning crimson and gold as the sun sinks deep; glinting against the steel and glass of the high rise.  Phoenix at cocktail time.

This is a MONSOON.

MONSOONS ARE AMAZING.........