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Last year, I had driven down from my home state of Wisconsin to Kentucky to pick up my best friend, pack him up, and move him across the country to Arizona, where he was going to be moving in with another mutual friend. My travels took me through quite a bit of desert area, as you might surmise. the weather was actually colder than it had been in my home state, which is in the Midwest. That should have been my first clue that things were going to be quite interesting for my trip. But, I shrugged it off and enjoyed the cooler weather, since I am naturally rather warm blooded. After dropping off my best friend and hanging with them, I started on my way home. The journey had already been rather long, but getting to see the country was always something I love about traveling. The next day had me up early and on the road, which, surprisingly, had me going through New Mexico. I was quite delighted at this turn in my route, so to speak, but my delight turned to disbelief about halfway through the rust colored state. You see, before I had left my home state, we'd barely had any snow to speak of, which is something that is a bit unheard of in the Midwest! So, to my shock, there was at least a foot and a half of snow covering desert sand and plants as far as the eye could see! It was so strange to see the greyish white snow mingling with the sienna colored sand of the area, while low growing sagebrush, scraggly looking desert olive trees, and pointy yucca bushes sprouted up from the snow, as if to say the snow couldn't stay on them because they were too prickly! Black furred cattle watching me drive by also made for a fun change in the scenery, even as the steel grey and snow white covered landscape rose up and then down through the mountains around me. Needless to say, it was a shock to this bumpkin's little world to see snow in a desert, while her home state had less than two inches of snow covering much of it! But it was also very peaceful and, in a way, calming, to see something so familiar in an unfamiliar place. Even with saguaro cacti poking up here and there in the distance, which did make for funny 'Christmas trees' when I would see them covered in snow. I guess that it was nature's way of telling me that not everything is how you make it and that everything looks good in a new coat of snow.