Friday, January 22, 2010

More snow in Arizona

Yes, it's snowing again in Arizona.

This is taken from the foot of snow-covered Glassford Hill. That's not smoke in the center of the photo, even though Glassford once was a volcano. It's just a smudge on my car window, I think.

One can hardly see the hill as more snow is blowing in.

It's going to be a great weekend to stay home and warm.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Still later . . .

A little later, we had to go to a doctor appointment and found heavy fog. This photo really doesn't do it justice. It was starting to clear off by this time.

Since then, it's been raining, sometimes hard, virtually all day and night. Looks like more snow during the night and tomorrow.

Later . .

These photos were taken about an hour later than those in the previous post.


A little snow

The latest storm from California blew a little snow in our way, as you can see from these photos I snapped at 7 o'clock this morning. Smoke is seen in the upper left of the first photo heading (cautiously) out to check on things. As you can see from the final photo, the snow (while still falling) was rapidly melting on the patio as the temperature rose.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Changing faces

I was driving through downtown Prescott today when I spotted a facelift going on on several buildings along Cortez Street.

It's always kind of interesting in these old western towns when the newer facing is ripped off to see what is revealed underneath. In this case, apparently an old photo shop, probably long forgotten, until now.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Changing weather

Yesterday rain clouds moved in from California. It rained most of the night. Today blue skies but with clouds lurking was the rule.


Just so we don't get cocky though the forecast calls for more rain and possibly snow tonight and tomorrow. And Mingus Mountain has snow about halfway down it's slope.


Monday, January 18, 2010

California's liquid sunshine

The first of a series of rain and snow storms has blown into Arizona from California this morning. If you watched the telecast of the Golden Globes awards last night you know what we can expect. Rain all week for our elevation. A few thousand feet higher around Flagstaff there's a prediction of 3 to 8 feet of snow this week. I'll take the rain.


I talked to the BRD this morning. She lives half a dozen miles to the west and a couple of hundred feet higher than we do. She said she was having "snain" - a little snow, a little rain.