If the antelope are smart, their hunting for water. They may not be as adept at sucking a cactus the way our early pioneers and native Americans were. Look where there is water, and you may find the antelope. Thanks for the picture. This country has a beauty all its own. It may not be lush and green, nor that which is normally thought of as a “Land flowing with milk and honey.” as the Bible so often described the Holy Land; but its unique beauty certainly gets to foreigners who dwell within New Mexico as well as most non-native New Mexicans as it did within me back in the Sixties leaving a mark which I cannot shake to this day.

I am aware of how quickly it can green up after a rain. I remember being amazed at how quickly the area from the Kirtland and the then Sandia Base to the Isleta Pueblo could be so brown one day only with tumbling tumbleweed; then, after a rain shower, the entire area would green up the next day with thriving new green tumbleweed and whatever other desert plants that may abound. I guess now the whole area is brown to empty; at least, that is the way it appears as I search the area between the base and the Isleta Pueble on Google.