Transmitting from the Mojavee Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice on the desert

more snow and more rain on the way in this winter and spring for the history books

the american south winter and spring for the history books.

The American Southwest has not seen anything like this for a very long time.

With the California Mountains and the Mojave and the Great Basin and the Sonoran getting a lot more winter action than has been seen in 40 years,

which is two generations if you're keeping biblical time or biological time.

It's funny to see the dried-up old desert with waste-high wildflowers and exotic weeds everywhere,

so green and beautiful.

And every dip or depression has its own little pond now,

with the coyote and bobcat tracks and the mud around the edge.

Bees buzzing around the desert daffodils starting to open up where it's warmest and sunniest.

Still cold at night, cold enough that my doves came back a little too early.

They've been spending the night sleeping over the porch light, where the bulbs make it warmer,

if not otherwise, very conducive to sleep.

It's one of those old lantern-looking fixtures like you'd see in a 1970s Mexican restaurant or in a dungeon where they torture people.

It's made out of black cast iron with black metal chains with these amber glass chimney tops.

And the doves just plant themselves on top and it's warmer.

Soon they'll be raising one baby after another until August or September or so.

And other than the evil ravens and the swooping red-tailed hawks and the castrols and the snakes below and the fox always ready for an egg to roll out of the poorly constructed

nest, it's a safe haven. Yeah. egg to roll out of the poorly constructed nest.

It's a safe haven.

The ski resorts will be open well into the summertime in the upper elevations up in the high Sierra, where the snow is currently 60 feet deep.

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