Saturday, August 18, 2012

OOJ: Dirt Art


abq ppl call this time of year "monsoon season", which means most afternoons, the sky lets loose and dumps tons of water on the city for 30 minutes. if i were a monsoon, i'd be insulted that these intense but brief thunderstorms are called monsoons. it's nothing compared to days of nonstop rain in other parts of the world, but i guess if you live in the desert, any sustained rain feels like a monsoon. the happy part is, at least we have some moisture in the air now. in june, we were at 7% humidity. these days we get a whopping 29%. when it rains, it floods, and then we get a ginormous puddle/mini-lake at school, which dries up in a few hours, leaving interesting dirt patterns on the ground. i have no idea how the dirt curls up like that, but it makes for a great sculpture.

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