Our First Wintry Day

Today was our first, truly winter-like day. It started cold and cloudy, and finished colder, with lightning, rain and hail. I love days like this, because we get so few of them. Driving home, there was just a little clearing in the western sky allowing a touch of sunset light to spill across the desert. The lightning in front of the mountains was incredible, and the clouds seemed like they were ready to burst. It was cool. At home, I cranked up the fireplace for the first time this season, and just hung out by it most of the night. Heavy snow is expected tonight at higher elevations (higher than where we are, anyway), with rain here and temps in the 40s. It's nothing like the ice storms in the rest of the country, but this is winter in Tucson, and I'm so glad it's finally here.