We sipped airy pinot blanc and stared out at the irrigated grapevines abutting the desert scrub.
In still drier areas of the north, desert scrub occurs, exposing the bare ground.
As flames enveloped the houses — "they used petroleum," he said of the soldiers — he fled into the surrounding desert scrub.
Forests of cedar, fir, larch, hemlock, and ponderosa pine are abundant, and desert scrub dominates the southernmost parts.
For hours, Grad rocket barrages and mortar rounds landed harmlessly in the desert scrub, sometimes far behind the rebel lines.
From the Albuquerque Sunport, it's a straight 2.5-hour shot south, through low mountains and high desert scrub.
The desert scrub has been replaced with grassy quarter-acre plots with houses at half the cost.
This expanse of desert scrub has been keeping smugglers safe since the time Europeans were emerging from their caves.
Today, this dusty metropolis in northeastern Nigeria's desert scrub is dotted with the burned-out shells of what were school buildings.
As we waited in a bottleneck to get on the 10 freeway, he stared at a bed abandoned in the desert scrub.
The couple personify the story of this region of desert scrub an hour east of Los Angeles, known as the Inland Empire.
