Wickenburg,AZ cooled....

It has been raining here off and on. With the rain last Wednesday came some cooler weather, so we no longer have 100 degrees here. We are in 60's at night and 70's in day. I hear a lot of people coughing now since the sudden change in the weather. Even though it rains here. It never rains all day. There is always a time during the day when the clouds part and that wonderful Arizona sun shines through. I can stand in my parking lot and look across to the Weaver mountains where my son lives and see the dark clouds hovering over them and the dark rain streaks running out of the cloud to the ground. You know for sure they are getting a rain shower there. There have been an unusually high number of tornadoes this year in the past month but they stayed away from where I am. Here in Wickenburg there is a river called the Hassayampa which means "upside down river". It is an Indian name and so named because you can walk on the water because the water runs under the sand and dirt. The exception to that is you don't want to be walking on the river when it rains in the mountains because that is when the water runs down into the river and the water runs on top of the river. In the mountains, the river is not upside down and the water is always on top, and there are some beautiful colored rocks in that river in the mountains. I guess most people would just look at it and think of it as just a stream in the mountains.