It's raining mud

The remnants of a Saharan dust storm moved across the Mediterranean and over France this week, transported by the sirocco wind. The result is an orange-tinted sky (it looks more like a pale pink where we are) and muddy rain. I noticed mud drops on the car Tuesday morning during a trip to the pharmacy. I assumed somebody drove through a puddle and splashed the car. When I got home, I heard the news about the Saharan sand and realized that it was falling with the drizzle we were having.

The Sarhara Desert pays us a visit.

This is a photo of our greenhouse roof seen from the guest room window. Our neighbor's car was even more orange looking than this yesterday. I noticed that the leaves of plants and grass are coated with a thin layer of mud, too. We need a good rain, when the dust is gone, to wash everything down.

I did get out yesterday to trim up the part of the yard where the juniper used to be. I even scattered grass seed. Some light rain will help that to settle in, but there's none in the immediate forecast. I may take the hose to it.