we saw it on the weather earlier but it hadn't gotten to town yet. weird, huh.

Tree picture is outstanding!

We were teased by the one storm that passed us . We got some drops out of it. I had my husbands wire cutters out in it. My hills are so dry. I was up their planting 19 yearling seedlings of Nolina texana. the ground was dust and rock dry. Today we are supposed to get fire weather. FUN fun in the sun. No wind yet but they say it pick up with the cold front which should be here any second. Humidity is supposed towrope to the 5%-20%.

The news said that yesterday in East Texas the hale was baseball size. That will do some real damage. One year we had bad hail here and many birds were killed, knocked right out of the trees!

At least my yard got an inch of rain dumped in the span of about two minutes from our sudden little storm. Sorry to hear that anybody that got baseball size hail. Incidentally, I read online that an unusually warm next three months is expected for our region. Gonna' go drown my sorrows from that bit of news by meeting friends at Rainbow Gardens ... :-)

Nice tree photo....

Yes, My weather man's prediction that he made in October is coming true. With 5" of rain since October 1 (at my house) and a projection of a dry spring and an early very hot summer because we have no moisture in the ground to keep us cool. This is a pattern that happens after a summer of strong hurricanes . Also strong March storms on the East coast is a pattern that follows . Drought always follows a March of three Northeast'ers like they just had. They are gearing up for another historic storm like one they had in '58 where 56 inches was dropped in Pennsylvania... It is why I am cutting down plans for a summer garden. I am down to less than half my cistern capacity already. We got .08" out of yesterdays storms. This is why I am not going to the spring swap. I am seeding plants to plant in the fall. I have too many plantings to care for already this summer.

We got heavy rain, but no hail. Hope there wasn't much damage to young plant shoots.

Love your yard Roselee, It looks like an adventure with arrangements at every turn. I need more of that in my backyard with tree roots bumping up everywhere it's hard but I am working on creating more interior beds.

It never ceases to amaze me. I live about ten miles to the east & south of Roselee, and we got nothing except some big rain drops that temporarily wetted maybe half of the street & driveway.

OTOH that monster hailstorm of April 2016 (costliest in state history) hit a huge swath in the northern half of San Antonio. In my neighborhood alone, insurance companies paid to replace hundreds of roofs on new homes, due to the premature aging of the gritty shingle surface. Every car parked outside had broken glass & severe denting; more than half of the west-facing house windows were broken. Plants and pots were shredded, the cedar fence pickets were gouged.

But some plants seemed to wake up afterward (a few that had been sluggish in prior months and years)!