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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I have shade, rock yards are still hotter than grass yards.  In the summer, 
if you walk across a grass yard, put down your hand; the grass will feeler 
cooler than the 114 degree air.  If you do the same thing with a rock yeard, 
you will burn your hand.  You can feel the heat radiating off of desert 
landscaping in the same way it does from concrete ...bobford


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--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Water Crisis Coming Soon
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 9:04 AM
> >  My houses faces west, the worst possible direction in
> phx.  If I had dsert landscaping the rocks would absorb the
> western sun all afternoon , making my house/property hotter
> during the already hot days, and then throw part of it
> toward the house in the evening , making it even harder to
> cool the house.....bobford
> 
> The key is not the ground but the shade. Mesquite trees are
> well adapted here. They shade the ground, whether that
> ground is covered with grass or gravel.