Another Planet

 Rain is pouring down on the desert.  When it rains in the desert it is an entirely different game than rain anywhere else. It changes the planet. Kadizzle is sitting here with the sound of rain popping on the Earth Module.  The rain brings back a memory.  Once Kadizzle and Winky were in the Baja.  It is incredibly dry there.  Rain fell like it had not fallen for one hundred years.  The bloom of the desert was unbelievable.  We went for a walk and it was like walking on Mars.  Strange plants bloomed and colors sprang out everywhere.  An erie feeling of being in such a strange would was a good feeling in the bright sunshine. 

Now this desert will explode.  Desert plants get drunk on rain and know it is their chance to have an orgasm.  Grass will go insane. This is good and bad.  The grass will create a fire hazard and there will be massive fires.  Rain causing fires imagine that. One would think rain would soak into the sand like crazy, wrong.  Rain will run off the ground quickly.  One constant danger is flash floods. The ability of rain to move rocks is evident everywhere.  Erosion is sudden and deep.  Rain seems to awaken a sleeping giant.  As a trail crew we will be faced with fallen trees eroded paths, and of course dense brush.  

The refreshing smell from the rain is always pleasant.  The creosote plants give off their own special odor.  Some plants will bloom they will not care it is winter, but others will wait until official spring comes.