HABOOB!

One may as well stir in a hearty

"Haboob-bala...Mischkoo-bala"...and an "Abracadabra" too!

 It is extremely fascinating to me how

this billowing brew of desert dust

quickly becomes

a visual feast for hungry desert photographers!

(Myself, included...)

Yes,

'tis the season

of the amazing Arizona monsoons!

(Click on images to enlarge...)

“You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.”

~Maya Angelou 

"Getting Emotional..."

Introducing..."Sensitive"...

card #1 in my new whimsical floral ATC series.

I feel

I am just like her these days...

super sensitive and frail...suffering from

oppressive humidity, heat, swarms of bugs, and other

inevitable Midwest summertime penances.

They are sucking the life

out of my energy...

and are holding me captive in my own home!

At the present time, mid morning, here in corn country,

it is 88 degrees with a sultry dew point

of 81...Amazon jungle levels...

making it feel like a soggy wet 105!!!

Personally, if I am going to be hot and uncomfortable...

I prefer the arid heat and the

dusty brown

powerful haboobs of the desert southwest...

to this rainforest-like mugginess.

Unlike me...

my Muse is having a great time...being held captive inside

she is drawing up a storm of her own!

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure
without
being more sensitive to pain.”
~Alan Watts

A Summer Desert Dichotomy...of Sorts..."

It's either blazing hot,

(with high temps in excess of 114 degrees...

and overnight lows reaching record breaking highs...)

with cloudless cerulean blue skies,

and sun baked dry, firery air...
...or
it's claustrophobically "sticky humid"
(a record high 80 degree dew point three days ago...
um...75 degree dew points are Amazon jungle level...)
with heavy water laden cloud banks
bursting at the seams in torrential downpours
making desert washes run wildly.
Geesch!
It has been one heck of a week here in the desert.
Hope you enjoy
my stylized "cactus monsoon flower" above.
Hmmm...
Maybe I should send it in to the Weather Channel
to be used as a new forecasting symbol
for these here desert regions.
LOL :)
Have a non-dichotomous...smooth and agreeable
Cactus Monday All!
:)

"You know you're an Arizona native
when
you take rain dances seriously."
~Skip Boyer