Although Tucson hasn’t but had its first monsoon storm of the season, the twenty fifth Annual Día de San Juan Fiesta, the feast day of San Juan, the patron saint of water, celebrated the strategy of the summer time rains.

This yr’s competition, held on Saturday, June 24, by the Menlo Park Neighborhood Affiliation, opened with conventional blessings and featured music from DJ Dirtyverbs and Mariachi Luz de Luna, meals vans, arts and crafts, and an opportunity for Tucsonans to discover the desert at Mission Backyard.

It was additionally a chance for residents to affix in a conventional request for San Juan (St. John) to hurry up the appearance of the rains as temperatures start to climb.

“I actually loved the blessings to start with,” mentioned Jackson
Veneklasen, gardener and grounds supervisor of the West Aspect agricultural museum, on the base of A Mountain. “It’s
understanding that that is O’odham land that we’re standing on,
acknowledging that and having that connection to the folks.”