How Do You Spell Relief?

With the Home Tour in the rear-view mirror, I took the day off and drove to the volcanoes.  
Observations:
The clouds were glorious, the desert land abloom with wee floral delights following Saturday’s rain.
A small airplane and a raptor, silhouetted against the clouds, flew in formation and banked to the left riding an easy current to the backside of the volcano.
A buzzard lifted off Vulcan with a snake in its clutches.
Aqua colored whiptail lizards scurried from shrub to shrub when caught sunning in the sandy soil.