The Chihuahuan Desert is a desert and ecoregion designation covering parts of Mexico and the United States. It occupies much of West Texas and parts of southern New Mexico, and southeastern Arizona, as well as the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau. It is bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, along with northern portions of the Sierra Madre Oriental range. On the Mexican side, it covers the northern half of the state of Chihuahua, along with the majority of Coahuila, north-eastern Durango, the extreme northern part of Zacatecas, and small western portions of Nuevo León. With an area of about 362,000 km² (139,769 sq mi), it is the third largest desert of the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in North America, after the Great Basin Desert. From: Wikipedia.

I took this picture southwest of Truth or Consequences ... or west northwest of Alamogordo. The land is beautiful and so very different from the area in which I live (Nebraska). The soil is sandy and the plants are designed to live with little water and hot, dry air and winds. Greasewood, sagebrush, cacti, and tumble weed abound and thrive. Deer, lizards, peccary, and tons of insects live here, too. This photograph was taken with my Canon 6D mounted on a tripod. I shot with a 24-70mm Sigma lens in monochrome with a red filter; raw format; and manual settings. The picture was edited with both Lightroom 6.5 and Zoner 18.