We all learned a new vocabulary word this last week. "Haboob" It's Arabic for violent dust storm. Click here for a stunning video of the July 5th, 2011 Haboob by a local photographer. The dust was 5000 feet high and 50 miles wide. We had a pretty good wet monsoon (Desert rain storm) a few days later which washed all of the dust off of everything and cooled us way down. It was 95 degrees a couple of days ago when much of the rest of the nation was hotter than 100. Normal for mid-July around here is 105-115.
Our family took a sunset hike just outside of Mesa and it couldn't have been prettier with the parting clouds and the clean green desert trees and the sun setting on the surrounding mountains.
The trail took us down by the Salt River. Lesa sitting on the banks.
Shaw throwing rocks in the water- ok... I was too. It's a man thing...
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