There is always something to watch in the skies here. Especially in monsoon season: watching with hopeful eyes for some kind of build-up suggesting that, yes, there will be some rain eventually. It can be quite sudden, or simply tantalizing in character, and, thankfully, so far, there are no nearby fires to cloud the air with haze or burn the house down! The electricity has gone out twice, and once the Valley Electric guy drove in to check — said that the transformer for this branch of the grid is located on what he termed “lightning alley” — a ridge about a mile away to the west where they are always having strike outages.
