Outside in beautiful Southwestern New Mexico. This is the part of my job that I love. Today, our field crew is working on "fine tuning" some field mapping. Left to right is Alejandra (Ale), Allen, and Justin in the foreground.
Steve drove out to meet us and we took a break for lunch (bean and cheese burrito smothered green, for me!)
Allen took this photo. Isn't it beautiful?! Some variety of yucca, I believe. You see them all over down here, and they are all in bloom right now. Fabulous. Note how it's clouding up in the background. Every afternoon we get thunderstorms - thunder, lightning, rain, sometimes hail. It's really refreshing, but it makes it kind of humid, too. (Which translates into "zits!" for moi!)