There is a small herd of urban javelina that lives somewhere along the Rillito, or up a side wash, near the end of Country Club. In their nocturnal wanderings they have some times come up our circle and I have encountered them a number of times on my morning walks. They have paid two visits to our back yard during the past few weeks, coming in through a small break in the ocotilla fence back in the far corner of our lot. The first visit they made quite a mess, eating up all the plants that appealed to them, breaking a large pot, dumping the trash bin, and leaving muddy nose prints on the front porch, full-length windows. Their visit on Thursday night this past week was less damaging; however, neighbor John Ferner had set up a surveillance camera and caught several shots of them back where the break in our fence is. Above photo is apparently of a juvenile digging along the neighbor's side of the fence
The storms on Friday afternoon and evening avoided our rain gauge, but above photo is of a rainbow with a dissipating storm just to the east, with a more distant storm off to the southeast. We were at Santa Rita Abbey Friday evening and Saturday (about 5 or 6 miles northwest of Sonoita). The storms that were scattered around southeast Arizona and northern Mexico put on a nice show of fireworks after dark. A storm out there hit at a bit before 9 pm with strong winds from the east - could not see enough to even estimate how strong the gusts might been. Storm produced 0.33" of rain, and left behind enough low-level moisture for low clouds to hang on the Santa Rita mountains at sunrise Saturday. Photos below are looking west at the mountains just before and after sunrise. If you look close, the summit of Mt. Wrightson is sticking just above the clouds.
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