The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VII.. Stop In!!!

[Running Bear]

Our desert has a lot of growth, not green hills and lush trees, but enough to support all sorts of life from bugs to snakes and coyotes. We have a occasional brush fire here that might grow to several thousand acres, but a lot of times, you go up I-17 and you see a few acres of burned landscape where someone had tossed a cigarette butt out the window, or pulled off the road with a hot catalytic converter or a car fire that spread. When it's dry, many desert plants will shed their leaves (if they have any), just to conserve the water they have. A lot of cacti will store water as well. We even have a species of frogs that hibernate underground until the rains come, then like dehydrated potatoes, the come to life when they get wet.

That's the way it was in El Paso for the most part. Not much in the way of grass but quite a bit prairie grass, tumbleweeds, cactus, mesquite and lots of bushes you'd find in such an environment. Most of it very dry as well. It was the first place I'd seen where it could rain all day and the next morning it looked like it had never rained.