NEARLY WORDLESS SPECIAL
The Engineering Geek's official rain guage read 1.8" after a rain that started in the pre-dawn lasted until nearly 1 PM this afternoon
For perspective, our mountains usually get an average precipitation of 12 - 16 inches per year.
It was still misting lightly as the dogs and I ventured out to check on the area after the downpour stopped.
The water pools on the downhill side of a culvert, last stop before it cascades down the rocks and into Sedillo Canyon. I wish I had been willing to brave the mud and venture into the canyon. I might actually have seen water running in the arroyo there.
Water rilling and pooling on the flat area below the road. It will be slowed down by a narrow inlet into the east source for Sedillo Canyon. This is a very unusual sight. The area is usually either muddy or dusty.
Water makes the road across the lower high meadow into a lake. And a river. It will take more than one day of sunshine to do a meadow walk. And we've only had one meadow walk this week. This has been an exceptionally rainy September.
Water in the culvert at Los Pecos and Los Pecos.
Last night's wind brought down the dead twigs.
Today's rain is washing them away down to Sedillo Canyon.
Our walk was accompanied by the murmur, babble and laughter of falling water. Lots of it.
I thought about you last Saturday, but am just getting around to checking in. I hosted a girlfriend who doesn't have cable. We had our own Tea Party and watched the coverage. (I bet the original Tea Party patriots of 1773 didn't have hors d'oeuvres! Poor fellows!) Glad to see you were out and about.
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