We caught the tail end of a hurricane coming up from Mexico and had a lovely cloudy/rainy few days here. We took a drive one day to see if any waterfalls had started yet. Nope. The ground was still just sucking it up. While driving out through Snow Canyon we saw a small desert tortoise along side the road on the pavement. That's a very dangerous spot for them to be, so we stopped to take a look. It was slurping up water from the pavement! Even tortoises love the rain I guess. We were worried it would come to far out into the lane of traffic, so we stopped at the fee booth nearby to alert them so they could move it. She said for us to just move it since she couldn't leave her place there. We drove back and Paul carefully carried it off the road and behind some rocks to maybe keep it away. Hopefully it found water to slurp from other places.
We also took walks up by the Desert Garden and saw the effects of the rain on all of the beautiful desert plants up there! So lovely to see so many things blooming.
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