Snow is considered a rarity in the Tucson area, unless you count the mountain ranges that surround the city and often wear a covering of white in winter. Yesterday a major storm swept through the Desert Southwest and left at least three inches of snow at elevations as low as 2000 feet.
At the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, this crested saguaro, a rare cactus form, wore a cap of snow. It was a display of rare snow on a rare cactus. It was quite a sight and a thrill for folks out at the museum complex where snow had not fallen in five years.
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Wanda Hayes Eichler
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