June Days
Sun, sun, sun for days on end. Crossed out water drops and 0% chance of rain -- dry for days on end.
It's June in New Mexico.
It's everyone's least favorite month here. I do enjoy the beautiful sunny weather and open skies and gorgeous light. I love having windows and doors wide open all day, and cool sleeping weather at night with the window cracked. It's lovely.
But the intensity of the summer solstice sun at 7,000 feet is harsh. And the low humidity is starting to be bone sucking. My plants, which looked so good with the snowy winter and wet cloudy spring, are beginning to fade in the dry heat. They are starting to look a little stressed.
Our damp spring created lots of new succulent growth in my gardens, and now with the hot dry, the aphids are picnicking in great masses. I use the jet setting on the hose to blast them off, but mostly that just sprays water at the neighbor's windows. Their open windows.
With the unusual winter we had, there is still a little bit of snow on the very tips of the mountains that can be seen from town. Reservoirs are full and the rivers have flowing water in them. That's all good -- wonderful, actually -- but still, June has an edge to it here. A too-dry, too-bright, metal-dust feel that isn't quite right even when the days seem so nice.
It's June in New Mexico.
It's everyone's least favorite month here. I do enjoy the beautiful sunny weather and open skies and gorgeous light. I love having windows and doors wide open all day, and cool sleeping weather at night with the window cracked. It's lovely.
But the intensity of the summer solstice sun at 7,000 feet is harsh. And the low humidity is starting to be bone sucking. My plants, which looked so good with the snowy winter and wet cloudy spring, are beginning to fade in the dry heat. They are starting to look a little stressed.
Our damp spring created lots of new succulent growth in my gardens, and now with the hot dry, the aphids are picnicking in great masses. I use the jet setting on the hose to blast them off, but mostly that just sprays water at the neighbor's windows. Their open windows.
With the unusual winter we had, there is still a little bit of snow on the very tips of the mountains that can be seen from town. Reservoirs are full and the rivers have flowing water in them. That's all good -- wonderful, actually -- but still, June has an edge to it here. A too-dry, too-bright, metal-dust feel that isn't quite right even when the days seem so nice.
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