vision thing

so as i was driving to work this morning i had somewhat of an epiphany.  when i first moved to this ol' desert from the lush surroundings of the northwest all i could see was brown.  brown dirt, brown bushes, brown buildings, brown everything!  aside from the sporadic drive through the mountain park, or up the road to mount lemon where there are actually pine trees, i had a hard time even noticing that the cactus were actually green.  the green that i did see appeared washed out, or faded by the oppressive fireball in the sky.  well, all of a sudden today i realized that i can finally see the signs of life around town in the form of green trees, plants, and flowers.  i feel that it must mean that i have been here so long that my eyes have adjusted to the bleached out flora that exists here in the wild west.  i can actually see the beauty in my everyday surroundings for the first time in a very long time.  however, i still point and scream "GRASS!!" every time we pass a golf course or a park...two of the very few places where you can actually experience the luxury of such here in tucson.  people are very militant about not wasting water on lawns (pshhhh! they obviously have no idea how worth it it would be), but i wish everyday that we had just a small patch in our backyard to dig our bare toes into instead of the layers of sharp rocks that we do have.  ahhh, yes, it is the simple things in life which we must revel.  unfortunately, when we spend so much time wanting things to be different from what is possible we will only set ourselves up for disappointment.  this is why i have to be okay with what we have at this point in time, and i keep reminding myself that it is only temporary.  the rocks, just like our lives here in tucson, are only temporary.


on another colorful note, i picked some tiny strawberries today from my "porch patch" that i planted a few weeks ago.  they were so cute and sweet tasting...yum!  hopefully the beets that i planted will be able to mature as well instead of shriveling up in the boiling june temperatures.  we'll see...