Dennis Mammana: Summer Has Returned ... But Why?

Dennis Mammana: Summer Has Returned ... But Why?

It was bound to happen: The heat of summer has arrived at my Anza-Borrego Desert home. As I write these words, it’s 115 degrees outside, and it’s just the beginning of the blistering heat we’ll experience for months. This is no surprise, of course. We’re all quite familiar with this seasonal pattern; in fact, most of us learned in grade school about the seasons and what causes them, but you’d be surprised how little some people remember of those…