Field notes from walks around the Sonoran desert. Mostly plants, sometimes weather.
First cool mornings. The ocotillo along the wash dropped its leaves again after a dry month; a single rain will bring them back within days.
Monsoon ended quietly. Counted fourteen young saguaros under the palo verde near the trailhead — nurse trees doing their job.
Storm clouds every afternoon, rain maybe twice a week. The creosote smell after rain is still the best part of summer.
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