The above image is representative of the weather all day on Saturday December 4 at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park outside of Superior, Arizona. I spent the better part of three hours that day walking in the rain to capture these images, and in many of them, it looks as dry as a bone. Perhaps a bit of sunlight was needed to make the raindrops shimmer and stand out. The camera picked up streaks of falling raindrops in about a third of the pictures (not shown here). The home in the row of images directly below shows the Picketpost house where Col. Thompson lived. I'm told there was an elevator that went from the house all the way down to the arboretum floor next to the Queen Creek river.

Early in the day I ran onto an abandoned easel, no doubt because of the rain, but it seemed eerie, a painting in progress with no artist in sight. The painting was covered with water and didn't appear the worse for it, so it must have been an oil painting.

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