Tuesday was a very windy day here in Arizona. I don't know what ended up being the maximum m.p.h, but it was enough for us to take notice with the windows rattling and a pretty good howl going through the trees. As I mentioned the other day, it looks more like autumn than spring thanks to all the dead leaves (trees and bushes?) from that January freeze.
Yesterday morning, I went out to survey the damage... a few chairs moved around, but fortunately nothing bad to report. On the contrary, just the opposite as the winds had nicely conveniently swirled a whole bunch of dead leaves into a tidy pile into a corner (which I should sweep up!), but I had to laugh when I looked out in the backyard and saw this in another corner...
A tumbleweed!
A former East Coaster, to this day seeing a tumbleweed still cracks me up. Of course, I have seen them in Roadrunner/Coyote cartoons and Western movies or television shows...but I just thought they were a little too hokey to actually exist. But they do... and even in the heart of suburbia they do live up to their name and tumble across streets and the increasing rare empty lot/field.
I almost hate to 'fess up to this... but our town's official holiday (not Christmas) display is a tree made up entirely of tumbleweeds... and yes, they do have a "tree" lighting ceremony every year... and no, we have never attended.
Now, how this tumbleweed got over our 6-foot wall block fence... plus, given its resting spot, a pool fence... I really do not know!
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