There was a small wildfire kicking up a lot of smoke just over the Texas border from me today.

First saw the smoke about 50 miles away and eventually made it to about a mile from the blaze.

It was burning short grass prairie covering a dune field that straddles the Texas/New Mexico border east of Portales.  Somewhere around here: http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.21493,-103.02223&z=13&t=H

Been at least two weeks since I’ve seen any precipitation in these parts; it came in the form of a modest snow dusting.  So, yeah, it’s been dry.