Ice-Break
Tucsonans are eagerly awaiting the annual breaking of the ice on the Rillito and Santa Cruz rivers. It did not happen yesterday, and it’s not likely to happen today even though the temperature today will flirt with the mid-to-high-nineties. Actually, we’re disappointed.
The first 100 degree day is greeted by true Tucsonans as "our kind of time," a heralding of the seasonal migration of Winterbirds to cooler climes. You are not a true desert rat until you embrace a Tucson summer; you are no more a son or daughter of "The Old Pueblo" than one could be a son or daughter of, say, Duluth while spending winter in Florida.
Once the ice breaks we can enjoy fishing for sand trout in the Santa Cruz and an occasional regatta on the Rillito.
