Rain, Rain, Didn't Go Away Until Recently

2007 has been an amazing year in the Texas Hill Country. Precipitation is not something this area is normally very good at, at least not compared to Houston. But 2007 started with a record ice storm in January, and stuff has not stopped falling out of the sky since. This photo shows how much the weeds... I mean native plants, appreciate the change of pace. Normally they'd be half this size in April and dead by May.

So we all breathed a little easier last week when Hurricane Dean headed south into Mexico. All of us except those living in Mexico, that is. Maybe my little rain chant actually worked: "Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day in nice, gentle, and modest amounts on a regular but not annoying basis, preferably not on weekends."