Waiting

Thinking about weather and the progress of the melt on Hurricane Ridge. Eleven months ago it looked like this:

Standing at the Visitor Center, June 12, 2008 (Click for larger image.)

This morning,

Current RidgeCam, early morning, May 17, 2009 (Click for larger image.)

Hard to imagine that green grass is going to appear up there anytime soon, but I guess it does every year, and at more or less the same time.