...Glad to hear things are going well (wth is greasewood?).
Still waiting for pics.
"greasewood" =
Sarcobatus vermiculatus
It's a common Great Basin desert shrub that's more salt-tolerant than sagebrush and even more than rabbitbrush (the 2 most common high desert shrubs, in Oregon anyway), so it's found further out into the lower/central areas of dry sinks and basins of the Great Basin, which usually have salty soil. Typically, greasewood is the last ring of vegetation before more-or-less sterile bare playa. (In Death Valley and other super-salty areas there are plants that are more salt-tolerant than greasewood, e.g., pickleweed)
(Some people call creosote bush "greasewood"...but they shouldn't.
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Pics: Where I am now -- McGill Canyon mouth, Jackson Mts, eastern Black Rock -- I barely have a cell signal (connection to the outside world), and even that's only because I have a powered signal amplifier or I'd be completely incommunicado. My connection is too slow/flaky to make uploading photos worth the frustration. I'll be in an area (probably) with a better signal Tuesday...we'll see.
"Weather" is blowing in...it's windy, mostly overcast, and VERY warm for this time of night in this area: 55°F.
