http://bebablog.com/2007/04/28/desert-living-adventures-with-goatbirds-2/ nothing fancy Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://bebablog.com/2007/04/28/desert-living-adventures-with-goatbirds-2/comment-page-1/#comment-473 Nifer Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:22:00 +0000 http://addia.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/desert-living-adventures-with-goatbirds#comment-473 Aren't those dessert storms amazing? I remember working in a building downtown the summer after my first year of college (the last summer I spent in AZ) and although my office window faced east, iti faced the mirrored windows of what was then called the Valley National Bank building (it's something different now - but it's the 30+ story building right downtown).I'd watch storms rolling in off the dessert from the west by seeing their reflection in that building. Such descrete units of huge power. Once later, when I was visiting wtih my husband, we temporarily stranded near a flash flood after a downpour in Tempe with my grandmother. My mother, around Thunderbird and the freeway, hadn't had a single drop of rain. Here and now, on these early spring nights, there are tons of spring peepers chirping near the marshes and bogs. They're deafening. Aren't those dessert storms amazing? I remember working in a building downtown the summer after my first year of college (the last summer I spent in AZ) and although my office window faced east, iti faced the mirrored windows of what was then called the Valley National Bank building (it's something different now – but it's the 30+ story building right downtown).I'd watch storms rolling in off the dessert from the west by seeing their reflection in that building. Such descrete units of huge power. Once later, when I was visiting wtih my husband, we temporarily stranded near a flash flood after a downpour in Tempe with my grandmother. My mother, around Thunderbird and the freeway, hadn't had a single drop of rain.
Here and now, on these early spring nights, there are tons of spring peepers chirping near the marshes and bogs. They're deafening.

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