Snow!

No insights/opinions/pontificating--just SNOW!
Snow down in the Tucson basin is always exciting...

Yesterday, that is...(Today was 70 degrees)...I slept in a little later than I wanted to, so I didn't get to actually see the flakes falling, but the car windshields in our neighborhood were covered in white--our back patio table was covered in slush, and cars driving from further east were blanketed... The sun was coming out, and things were beginning to melt quickly, so I gulped down half a mug of coffee, put on a sweater and drove down to the park down the street:

The back area of Udall Park, behind the soccer fields, is a 'natural' creosote flat area...not particularly scenic, but from there you can get a good view of the whole Santa Catalina Range--and as as you can see above, the snow was practically down to the base of the mountains...All of the mountain ranges around the city--even the low Tucson Mountains and the Tortolita range (site of the current golf championship tournament at the Ritz-Carlton) were completely white...

Crazy late-winter weather--Saturday was 70 degrees...Today was 70 and the day after tomorrow will be up to 80...but Saturday night a front came through and dropped the temps almost instantly...Mid-day on Sunday, as we were out and about, we drove through a couple of 'snow-pellet' squalls in the foothills...

Perhaps winter's last hurrah for Tucson.
Last week I went for a long run out in Saguaro National Park, (yeah--finally!--my first 8-miler since having pneumonia), and the first desert marigolds and fairy dusters have already begun to bloom...