First snow

We had a day of rain again. Lovely! I am serious! There is a world of difference between a day of rain and 6 months of drizzle, or close to drizzle. I spent the day inside, putting up some Christmas decorations. It got cold overnight, in the 20's as a matter of fact, and this morning there was a wisp of snow on Mt Glenn.  But we are back to sun, so I spent the morning outside and Dan hung the outside Christmas lights.

Garden cleanup

After last week's rain we got some frost. Not enough to damage the winter greens, but the tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and basil are toast. Today is a gorgeous day, shirtsleeves on December 2, and a perfect one to do some cleanup before other projects demand our time.

Even Shawna joined me for awhile outside.

Still some tomatoes and peppers for human consumption. The rest went to the chickens.

I did not think it worthwhile to show photos of the "before", so here are just some "after" ones. If major frost threatens all I need to do is throw some frost cover over the beds.

Special place, special morning

We had quite a bit of rain this past weekend, one inch according to the garden rain gauge, and suddenly it appears to be winter. After the rain the skies cleared (this is the desert after all, and not the PNW), and temperatures dropped to just below freezing last night. This spelled the end of the summer garden as the tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and basil look a bit bedraggled today, but the winter garden fared well, thankfully, even without frost protection.

All this moisture and then clearing meant that this morning a huge fog bank rolled in during our morning walk, and for a brief while we were alone in the world. Certainly not a day to be cycling so we decided to hike our nearby, and always beautiful, Cochise Stronghold instead.

Surprisingly no fog there, just sunshine with cloud banks rolling in on occasion. When we got to our favorite lookout, the valley was blanketed in fog all the way to the Chiricahua Mountains. Skies cleared this afternoon and the temperatures are forecasted to be on the rise again tomorrow.