Spring Comes To Arizona

We've had an unusually cold and rainy winter here.  From Christmas through early March average temperatures were six degrees below normal and in late February we had significant snow with a couple of miles of our house and 10-12 inches only seven miles away.

But the weather has finally broken and this morning we saw the harbinger of its end.  A rattlesnake on our street.

Fortunately it was an ex-rattler that lost its contest with a car.  As the weather warms it brings them out of winter hibernation.

On the brighter side we should have some pretty spectacular desert flowers in April and May because of all the rain.