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 I don't want to start sounding like Al Roker, but good

Lord, what a beautiful week we enjoyed between the miserable heat waves. On a number of days up

here on the north side of Joshua Tree National Park, it actually rained from the clouds.

Mostly a drizzle, but by the middle of the week, it was like spring on the Gulf Coast,

the kind of weather that makes you want to have a mint julep.

In theory, anyway.

In practice, the mint julep is a waste of three good ingredients,

bourbon ice, and fresh mint leaves.

It's like somebody put Nike wool in your whiskey.

It was sultry and breezy in Palm Springs.

The people all out in the plazas and the parks.

A 90-degree cloudy midday in Palm Springs is not something you often see in the summer.

And it is summer now officially.

Happy solstice.

Which always sounds like a threat in this century.

Happy solstice, buckle up.

Because what will it be this summer?

So thanks be to St. Minerva for the respite in the week after solstice.

The weather was more than agreeable.

Even the weirdest of my local Raven clan, the one I call Weird Annie.

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