Posted by: floppypoppy1111 on: February 10, 2010
Yesterday I awakened to find myself the first one up. I could feel the stale morning air of the house and heard the dog yawn. I put on my sweatshirt & house shoes and took our pup out for his first walk of the day. As I stepped out into the crisp morning air I was suprised to see something rare in Arizona. My breath. I marveled at it because I don’t think I’ve seen my breath in over a year. When we lived out west in San Diego seeing your breath in the morning or evening was completely normal. As normal as “late night early morning low clouds” or “the marine layer”. Moisture was something I took for granted. However, with the recent storms El Nino has brought us, there’s been ground moisture and even frost some mornings. The last time Tucson saw snow was 2007, for instance. We just don’t get a lot of moisture in that form. When the dog finished his sniffing and scruffing around I returned to the warmth of the house to prepare breakfast & start the day. The children were stirring and I told them what I had seen outside. They were suprised, too. My youngest quickly went to the window and pressed his face to it where he exclaimed, “Yeah, I see my breath, too!” Well, almost.
