Aahh, a baby ...

Cute, but some vigilance will be needed when harvesting cucumbers and zucchini because the little blip got away among all those leaves.

It's a pond filler!

We have had great monsoons this year. Not as much rain as in the valley, but more than in recent years.  The countryside and the hills are as green as in Ireland. The garden is booming, as are the weeds. This afternoon my zucchini may have met its demise however, we got a hail storm along with more than 0.5 inches of rain.

The place immediately floods and the berms around our house and yard make the water run like a river. All of it directed away from the house, some of it down toward the road and the Willcox Playa, some of it is directed toward our "pond", aka the-hole-in-the-ground-and-keeper-of-a-little-grass-for-the-horses.

It stopped raining about 10 minutes ago and the flooded areas are already free from puddles and there is just a trickle still running. It feels tropical out there.

Hummer seeking refuge from the downpour.

Peach glut?

In my opinion there is no such thing.

I started picking the first peaches this morning. We had to cover the first ripening tree because the birds were having a heyday pecking fruit, but thankfully the other two trees will be a few days or weeks in getting ripe yet and I will be able to cover them in turn.