The Desert

I need to clear something up. Many don't realize, but the predominant color inside the southwest deserts of Arizona, is purple. At sunrise, the sculptured mountains that the sun peaks out from behind are purple. If a small cloud cover is trying to make a statement at that wee hour, it is purple. At sunset the shadows cast in and around the crevices of those very same mountains, are light purple, dark purple, violet, lavender or a dark shade of pink-gray, which is really purple.

The ground is speckled lavender, by sand, or by plant. Plant: Lantana, daisy-looking flowers, snap-dragon looking stocks, blooming sage, ice-plant succulents of various sorts with shades of purple, both light and dark (that is correct, ice-plant...), Snail vine, Resurrection vine, Blue Hibiscus, which is really really really purple, and three other blooming purple flowers in my yard that I see all over the desert during late January through late March.

So hopefully, I've cleared that up... I'm not from San Fransisco...