Earlier this afternoon, I drove up Racquet Club Drive to photograph the distant mountains capped with snow. It seemed odd that, as I was looking at the snow, a pickup truck drove up behind me and a pool guy dressed in shorts and tee shirt got out and retrieved his skimmer pole to go tend his clients’ pool. Here we are on the desert floor with everything in bloom, palm trees all about us, temperatures in the high sixties, and I’m looking at new fallen snow in the mountains that surround Palm Springs.

Yesterday, it was foggy here and a soft rain fell most of the day. The mountain tops were obscured by the rain clouds. Our home sits at just 400 feet above sea level, so here we experienced the rain. At higher elevations, that is to say, around maybe 4000 feet and up, the precipitation fell as snow. Today is once again beautifully clear and sunny, being more true to our reputation of “always sunny Palm Springs”.