SNOW in TUCSON!

Today I got up in time to go to Mass at the Cathedral of St. Augustine at 10am. It was a nice celebration with Fr. Alanzo Garcia presiding as well as leading the hymns.



After breakfast at a local Denny’s, I drove north to “Biosphere 2.” This is the only place in the world where there is a desert, a tropical rain forest, marshlands, savannah and an ocean complete with coral formations all with in 31/2 acres…and this at 4000 feet above sea level! This is possible because in 1991, Biosphere 2 was constructed out of of glass and steel as a huge terrarium/aquarium like complex buildings. It is a private venture which cost over $150 million. The tour was fascinating and when the tour group emerged from one of the two “lungs” which are engineered to allow for the expansion and contraction of the air in this closed system, it was snowing!

Yes that’s right, it was snowing here in Tucson! In fact, as I write these words at 8:30pm, it is still snowing and it is accumulating! There was over an inch on the car when I came into the motel. There is a weather advisory scrolling across the bottom of the TV screen. They don’t do snow here! It’s funny – I thought I was escaping the snow and cold weather incoming here before departing for Australia!