Well, this was a pretty depressing chapter in the evolution of the home's landscaping. The company we'd hired to landscape said they'd scalp (mow the grass very low in order to kill it) the winter rye and then immediately broadcast the buffalo grass seed.
They forgot part two.
About three weeks after the lawn was scalped and VERY dead, the landscape company came out and spread the buffalo grass. Now, this timing was bad because the point was for the winter rye to hold the seed in place while it germinated. With no rye in place any solid rainstorm would wash away the seed.
And as luck would have it, we had a monsoon.
The aftermath was a scene of devastation that was far too depressing for us to take pictures of. However, this still photo reenactment sums it up:
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