THE drive from Albuquerque to Ruidoso goes for mile after mile through typical high-desert terrain: rolling hills dotted with low junipers.

The base roared across the salt flat on its six treads, kicking up scuffs of salt and sand and scraps of the low, dry junipers that grew here and there in the basin.

Amerie came to her secret place beneath a low but open-armed juniper and lay down) face to the sky, to pray.

The feeling of purpleness had grown ever stronger, and he moved more deliberately, changing his approach to take advantage of the scrub and low junipers.

Rifle in hand, Mykel made his way back to the waiting squads, using what cover there was, mainly scrub bushes, low junipers and a few small pines.

He forces his walk into a labored jog through the knee-high grass and toward the edge of the meadow, where, if necessary, he can drop behind the low junipers and scattered pines.

She looked to the hillside to her right, but the brown grasses and the leafless bushes, and the scattered low junipers could have been anywhere.

One of my neighbors grows the stout Elijah Blue in a bed on a corner of her property, with a couple of peonies and some low, dour junipers.

They camped that night in a grove of low, twisted junipers, building their fire against a boulder so that its white surface could reflect back both light and heat.

Suddenly Frank noticed a blur of whiteness moving behind a hedge of low junipers.