Sunday Afternoon Post: Life on the High Plains of New Mexico

New Mexico's High Plains can get cold.  They can see a snowy winter, over 100 days of frost, and chilly nights befitting a land the lies above 5,000 feet for the most part.  These lands are often not considered to be grasslands, probably because even the slightest rise in elevation brings forests, and the wildfire regime is different enough here to let junipers creep out into the grasses, along with the wonderful Tree Cholla (Cylindropuntia Imbricata), a pretty hardy cactus that can take whatever extremes of summer and winter this place can throw at it.  

Lovely scenery from Pecos, New Mexico, truly a land in between everything.

This is northeastern New Mexico, a land not quite in the plains, not quite in the mountains, and not quite in the deserts.