We got pounded yesterday with our first hard storm of the season--2.25 inches in two and a half hours. Fortunately no real damage--erosion in the front walk and driveway (both unpaved) and quite a bit of mulch washed away in my "anti-aviary" fruit tree cage. The plants are loving it!

You got hammered all right.    We got hit pretty hard too...but nothing like that.    The good news is we won't have to water for a while.

I love the last pics of Cactus, sorry bout to much rain.




luke

Ken, your yard is so beautiful. :) It is still better than mine after rain. 

We got hammered a couple nights ago.  But everything is paved or concrete, so no rivers ran through.  Those summer storms come up fast and it's a cloudburst.  Because we're in a valley, you get the meep, meep, meep interrupting the TV... Flood Warning. 

And the plants DO love it.  Amazing figs the next day!

Suzi

You've got a great yard. As a member of the Philly Cactus and Succulent Society, I'm loving the cactus, very nice.

I agree, your yard is gorgeous, especially the cactus!  I keep hearing the voices in my head saying "Well, we did need the rain..."  :)  Love those cacti!

We loved the thunder and heavy rain here is CT yesterday. Well needed it all around as there was no run off this winter so the ground was very dry. The wind and rain knocked my neighbors corn over. I covered my rehabilitating cuttings witha tarp so they did not swim away on me. The lawn is plush green today.

Thanks all, glad you enjoyed the cactus & agaves. Here's a shot of some Queen Victorias, which I quite like. I had to pick those camera angles carefully; most of the yard could best be described as "rustic"--if you were trying to be kind!

It's great, and as an added bonus (not redundant) no grass to mow!

Well, I must confess to having a weedy little postage stamp-sized lawn in the back yard.

Nothing a goat couldn't handle, I trust.

You have beautiful plantings.   Desert landscaping can look so good when done right like yours.   I wasn't there for the pounding we got, but I hear we now have lake front property!

My neighbor has one of those postage stamp lawns, Ken.  It's so small he doesn't even need a lawn mower to cut it.  He  hits it with a weed eater every now ant then.  Takes him about ten minutes.