Last weekend I went quadding up in the high plains desert of Arizona. The photo below is taken just above an old stage coach stop in the rolling hills of the high plains.

The high plains desert is a lot like the Australian scrub. There is very little water but an awful lot of vegetation that has adapted to the water sparse environment. About thirty metres to the left of where I took the picture was a natural spring. Which probably accounts for why it was a 19thC stage coach resting place. (more)
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