The Set Up

The Set Up, originally uploaded by Uncommon Depth.

It comes every year right on time. You can practically set your watch by it. We get a week or two of really nice weather in May, and you just start thinking maybe summer is here, and then June comes along....you're thrown right back into the crappy weather Alberta is so well known for. We go from basking in the heat and sunshine to frosty, cold grey skies. Soon the rains will start and stay for the entire month until we're all so waterlogged and grumpy we seriously consider trading in our cars for boats.

June is locally referred to as Monsoon Season. The rains will probably start on Friday because, just like every year, Friday marks the start of the local rodeo. Well......technically the rodeo starts on Wednesday night with chuckwagon racing. But the rodeo, as in the CPRA events, don't start until Friday evening. Maybe this year things will be different. Maybe it will be like a couple years ago and instead of the cold monsoon rains, we'll get afternoon thunderstorms.

At least then there is some heat between the storms and I don't have to wear mittens while trying to photograph some of the events. Although I wouldn't wish for the hail we had that year that caused so much damage. We had both our vehicles at the rodeo that year, and they both suffered damage from the egg sized hail stones.