After the rain

If you hike up the mountain behind the lodge at Davis Mountains State Park, and you are just behind the rain, the desert will start to get greener while you hike.

And if you keep hiking, all the way up, the clouds will sag so low that across the valley, the observatory's huge white domes are gone.

And without the usual white-bright sun, you might get disoriented.

Fort Davis, Texas

September 2006