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The Sonoran Desert is full of color all the time, but spring especially, or immediately after a rain. This tough bluish-green foliage on the humble brittle bush is so common, most people don't, I'm sure, stop and look at it. Brittle bush throws up beautiful little daisy like flowers in sunshine yellow above the ball of green, kind of mushroom cloud style! Then when the flowers die, they leave these little gold stalks with tiny tufts on top. Maybe like dandelions elsewhere, they could be properly appreciated with a closer look, so I did! Parked next to Canyon Lake, this one's leaf color was just captivating to me. Many greens are so soothing, although I've heard fashionistas say to avoid greens in your wardrobe because they are hard to mix. When you live in the desert, you find that the variation of hues and textures in greens seems uncountable, but isn't that an artist's version of infinity? When you get these sagey blue-tinted versions of green over a gravelly brown, orange and bleached rock desert terrain, with dark shadows underneath, well, it's plenty of subject for my impression of a wildflower. Not a weed. And no more of an invasive species than you or me. Even if you can't keep houseplants alive, put this where there isn't enough light, and lift your smiling eyes to the natural world anyway. The original is 8" x 8".
The Sonoran Desert is full of color all the time, but spring especially, or immediately after a rain. This tough bluish-green foliage on the humble brittle bush is so common, most people don't, I'm sure, stop and look at it. Brittle bush throws up beautiful little daisy like flowers in sunshine yellow above the ball of green, kind of mushroom cloud style! Then when the flowers die, they leave these little gold stalks with tiny tufts on top. Maybe like dandelions elsewhere, they could be properly appreciated with a closer look, so I did! Parked next to Canyon Lake, this one's leaf color was just captivating to me. Many greens are so soothing, although I've heard fashionistas say to avoid greens in your wardrobe because they are hard to mix. When you live in the desert, you find that the variation of hues and textures in greens seems uncountable, but isn't that an artist's version of infinity? When you get these sagey blue-tinted versions of green over a gravelly brown, orange and bleached rock desert terrain, with dark shadows underneath, well, it's plenty of subject for my impression of a wildflower. Not a weed. And no more of an invasive species than you or me. Even if you can't keep houseplants alive, put this where there isn't enough light, and lift your smiling eyes to the natural world anyway. The original is 8" x 8".