Ski Baja Arizona!

Just a quick post to share this picture of last Sunday's night's snow clinging to one of the many wild-growing Engelmann's prickly pears (Opuntia engelmannii Salm-Dyck) in our yard. There ended up being about an inch of it when it was all said and done.

Today couldn't have been more different - clear and bordering on warm - and this was despite the fact that snow was falling in the Sky Islands and Chihuahuan high desert east of the Old Pueblo as recently as this morning. Southeast Arizona is, if nothing else, a land of contrasts in both space and time.