May is almost done and over with and boy, it has been one for the books so far!
Checking back on the calender I found that we arrived here 3 weeks ago, on the 3d of May, when it was actually still beautiful weather. 
It started raining somewhere later that week, than we had snow between the 8th and the 11th, as I blogged about a while ago, and than again on the 20-21st if you can believe it (!), 

Merlin almost couldn't .....

     

.."what? Not again!"..

.... and yes, we did have a handful (if at all) of dry days, but the rest of the time it pretty much rained the whole time!
                                              Like this .....

Today started pretty much the same, but at the time that I'm typing this (4.30 pm) the skies are starting to clear and according to 'weather underground' it is going to be nice over the weekend!

Look at next week though! Thunderstorms every day and rather rainy, again, from Wednesday on!
Oh well ... we're going to take advantage of tomorrow's sunny day to go and see the presidents (the mountain sculptures) at Keystone, so hopefully these predictions will hold!

In the meantime I'll show some pictures of the few nice days we had. Everything looks so much nicer with a little sunshine ....



Although my azaleas have gotten a little bit of a beating from the weather, they are hanging in there!

I really love the area we're at. There are trails all around us and I've been checking out several of them on some of my morning walks.

Lots of pine trees. It reminds me of Lake Arrowhead! We're actually at the same altitude here, around 6000'.

Although the temperatures have been way to low for the time of the year, I've discovered a few wildflowers brave enough to make an appearance:

And in between the rains the birds are trying to make the most of this wet Spring, looking for food, singing for mates and preparing their nests.
There's a lot of woodpeckers here!

Downy Woodpecker (I think)

Red-naped Sapsuckers ...

... and Northern Flickers.

Occasionally I come across some of these cute little critters. They're tiny and hard to spot amidst the dead branches:

Least Chipmunk

Well, that's it for now. Let's hope for the weather to improve soon, we both have a cold and could do with some warming up!
The almanac predicts a dry summer ...... it just doesn't say where ...