I see plenty of color in Irulan's photo . Compared to our tan and brown desert it looks just beautiful. Out here we don't get fall. We go straight from the summer heat to gray winter. If we get enough rain, sometimes flowers bloom from the temporarily green foliage, only to dry up in a week. One spring we had butterflies. It was like a dream, riding and seeing butterflies take flight all around me. I was giddy, remembering when I was a kid and there were butterflies every spring. But tan and brown are the norm out here... It looks wonderful up there.