"The desert is a harsh master" says the sign in Red Rock Canyon Park, west of Las Vegas.
High wind warnings today, 40 mph sustained, gusts to 60 mph+!
Rough walking in it, chills everything in spite of warm temperature. The folks picking citrus lucked out, no work over long holiday weekend, Monday the rugged wind will have died down. One year outside Phoenix, we watched them picking watermelons in January....they left the smaller, still developing ones on the ground, thousands of them on hundreds of acres. Within the week, the remaining melons were disked into the soil along with the vines, maybe a hundred tons of them! Seemed a shame, but that provided nutrients in the soil for the cotton crop which followed. Nice winters! imp