For a few days in the winter of early 2015, the scrubby mountains of eastern Arizona, in the upper Salt River watershed, shed their normally bleak appearance for this wondrous and unusual scene of fresh, light snow. Seen from the airplane, it was a somewhat hazy view, but stacked polarizing and UV/haze filters took care of that mess, making the scene pop as nicely as if the air were clean. This is the transition zone, geographically, geologically and biologically, between the high Colorado Plateau and the Sonoran Desert containing Phoenix, into which I was flying. The snow fell from the same storm system that more thickly coated the scrublands and lakesides of central and eastern New Mexico.
over east-central AZ (4 Jan 15) Looking NNE