The soil is dry and dusty with some field plants and flowers growing, much less than spring of last year.  Trees are healthy.  Ant population has increased to normal and a few autumn grasshoppers have appeared.  May precipitation so far is 0.41 inch, almost up to the 0.49 NOAA normal for the whole month.  May is normally a dry month.  Our water supply is adequate but the Rio Grande River flow has diminished somewhat from last week.  No critical fire weather conditions are expected through late next
week.