Cool, clear morning after night-long rain. White blossoms on Apache Plume, drought-dormant desert olive showing new, green leaves. Co-pilot happy, encouraged that he can live in his heavy coat. He knows it’s the weekend, too. And I know the days are easing – light and temperature – downhill toward fall.
Aug. 2, 2013
By Journal Staff | 16 hours ago
http://www.abqjournal.com/240673/news/july-is-ninthwettest-on-record-for-abq.html
July proved to be one of the wettest on record after a pair of storms last week dumped more than 1.3 inches of rain at the Albuquerque airport. Exactly 2.77 inches fell at the Albuquerque International Sunport in July, tying it for the ninth-wettest July since the National Weather Service began record-keeping in the 19th century.
It was the wettest July since 2008, when a whopping 3.38 inches fell. With all the rain that fell statewide last week, New Mexico is now only in “exceptional” drought over a quarter of the state. Last week, more than 35 percent of the state fell in the worst drought category. An additional 50 percent remains in “extreme” drought, the next to worst category.
Presidential message: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/us/politics/obama-says-income-gap-is-fraying-us-social-fabric.html?pagewanted=all 
GALESBURG, Ill. — In a week when he tried to focus attention on the struggles of the middle class, President Obama said in an interview that he was worried that years of widening income inequality and the lingering effects of the financial crisis had frayed the country’s social fabric and undermined Americans’ belief in opportunity….Upward mobility, Mr. Obama said in a 40-minute interview with The New York Times, “was part and parcel of who we were as Americans.”…“And that’s what’s been eroding over the last 20, 30 years, well before the financial crisis,” he added.
Waited for 16 feral horses to come down the hill and pass the house this morning before heading out.
Look before crossing: 
Launching dreamranch: entering the cloud at sub-warp speed.
dreamranch 