Every two weeks Joseph rode through the parched hills Nuestra Señora for his food supply.
And nowhere is the devastation more jarring than in this Buddhist temple set among parched hills in central Thailand.
The island at this time of year was sunbaked dry, its parched hills covered with golden grass.
They are in search of the prey that have fled the parched hills to find food and water in residential gardens.
The line-backed cow lowered her head a bit and went unfaltering down the parched, gravel-coated hill, followed by a few hundred of the freshest.
Far, far off, still no nearer, were the pale parched hills which looked, anyway, most uninviting.
The library is in Reagan country, among parched hills where Hollywood cowboys used to ride.
Hundreds of fires have broken out in the parched hills of the Missouri Ozarks in recent months.
Having been warned to keep an eye out for the rattlesnakes who have come down from the parched hills, we fished the smaller upper reaches of Kitty.
The sun glared down on us as we walked our horses across the parched, rocky hills, weaving amongst the cactus and the greasewood.