This is Good News: Waist High Grasses

Waist high grasses in the Marfa plain this year signals a recovery from the Rock House wildfire that ravaged the land two years ago, and is possible because of our relatively ample rains this year.

North of Marfa, looking east

This is what the same area looked like in June 2011,
a few months after the Rock House Fire
the photo was taken in the center of a dust devil!