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Wednesday comparisons – wild rocks and wild water

 

 

 

 

Feeling hot and thirsty in the summer heatwave?ImageThis landmark is known as the First Pool.  It is approximately .8 mile from the trailhead of lower No Thoroughfare Canyon.  Photo – May 15, 2013

ImageToday, July 3, 2013, the pool is gone.  All that remains is mud.  Rain will come.  The question is when.

ImageMay 15, 2013, the first waterfall was broad (it is never full save in a flash flood).

ImageBy July 3, 2013, the first waterfall has dwindled to a drip.  By late afternoon, something was blowing in.  Will the desert get rain?  Who knows.

ImageIt has rained before. (picture along the .7 mile path between the first pool and the first waterfall.

DSCN5333whitenothoroughfareMay15The flowers that bloomed in May…

DSCN5606serviceberryShed their petals and became some sort of serviceable berry.