Kate Tirion

Yesterday in Phoenix, Arizona, the late-afternoon temperature was 105 degrees with a humidity reading of 5 percent! One hundred and seventy miles to the south and 2,889 feet higher in elevation, our temperature hovered in the low 90’s with humidity in the low teens; thirteen percent to be precise.

This summer’s monsoonal rains became the [...]

I was home from school the day the electricity first surged through the network of thick grey wires that wove throughout our house. In this old, old house made of stone and earth, it was impossible to channel a niche for the wires; instead, they lay on the surface, ending in domed brown switches [...]

It is early June and the weather here is unusual. Typically I would expect temperatures to be in the high range, high 90’s that is, perhaps even into the 100’s. May and June are the months of the hot dry summer and it is heat that brings the monsoon-like rains of our ‘second summer’.
 
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Since 1990 the Escondido Conservancy has been working to preserve the watershed of the Escondido Creek. Almost 26 miles long, the creek threads its way through numerous communities of people, plants and fauna as it makes its way to the 1,000-acre San Elijo Lagoon. The Lagoon is the exit point for the watershed into the [...]