It's amazing with the rain. Now that the weather has cooled some if we'd get rain today there would be fresh grass and such in the desert tomorrow. It's incredibly fast.
If we get rain in the summer (thunderstorms that we didn't get this year) the desert reacts much slower due to the temp. It's a pretty finely tuned system...
It's about time for the fall rains in the mountains which will end some of the fire season here. Typically coastal California gets heavy winds this time of year and can really burn.
It's really cool how things can lay dormant then come to life once the rains come along. There's some frogs that I've seen that do that, shutting down their system for a long time, then they come back to life with the rain. Amazing nature.
My mom had frobbies. A colony of toads that lived in a window well at the farm. The name came from her oldest grandson :) She could call them forth with a garden hose and just amazed kids to see them digging out and being active.
Frogs are pretty amazing little things.