“...here we go from brown to brown.”
But your deserts have such an awesome, powerful and TOUGH beauty to them, whereas where I live it’s more like a Disney movie, LOL!
I was in the Ansa-Borrego Desert State Park in CA a number of years back. In February. Oh. My. God. Everything was in bloom and you had to swat the Hummingbirds away as if they were mosquitoes! We in Wisconsin LIVE to see one or two Hummers each year! (It’s in-land from San Diego, so obviously south of you.)
My SIL and I were on a ‘vacation from our husbands’ (who are brothers) and we traveled all over the place out there. I used to live south of San Diego when a ‘former’ husband of mine was in the Navy.
We live in the most beautiful country on the planet. :)
Here’s a neat video of what we saw. And there was an honest-to-God OASIS at the end of one of our hikes. I’d never seen anything like it up until then.
http://www.desertusa.com/video_pages/anza-08-wild.html
The desert at De Anza is different from this in northern Arizona.
I owned property out of Ocotillo, Calif, one of my property lines was the De Anza Borrego State Park, LOL, we used it for weekends when we lived in San Diego, in the 1960’s.
About 1968, that desert was like you say, you could not walk with out stepping on a plant.
Some were 3 inches high and had daisy like flowers on them, a solid carpet of them, I pressed a bunch for craft work and root and all they were less than 6 inches.
But the desert is like than only every 20 or 30 years.
The amazing thing is that the roots and seeds lie there dormant all those years and then suddenly God says ‘bloom’ and they do.
I have not seen a Humming bird here in years.
I grew up in Otay, south of National City...LOL.
Our worlds are so much smaller than we think they are.
You may live in the most beautiful country in the world, but it snows.