Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert.

And it is officially summertime now.

No comment.

The consolation of these coming months is that each day has a little more darkness.

We got some thunder, we got some rain this week.

Monsoon season visited the Mojave,

brought dust storms to the endless miles of Phoenix.

And it left us hot and dry again.

I've been putting out more water for the doves and the bunnies, but then I saw something thrashing around in the bird bath.

There's this little fence lizard, about three inches long, and it's half drowned.

I fish it out, I leave it in the shade, and very slowly the lizard dries out and gets it together and walks on down the patio.

Then the doves are back, the birds with the sweetest souls, the morning doves.

A lot of people find it sad, the all of the morning dove.

But it's a beautiful song, and it makes you think about it all.

And then here comes a big roadrunner making its rounds and the cactus rins are noisy and active this time of year.

And then I hear another call

that shrill and leered

and followed by the screech of red-tailed

hawks who live up high in the big pinion.

And there's a fledgling atop the smaller pine.

The second fledgling I've seen from this pair

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