Fall in the Desert
This is to show the distinction in the landscape between Arizona and Michigan in the fall. It is also a lot like what the desert looked like to me when I first arrived. This picture is probably taken in late September because of the colors (after a long hot summer everything is browning -okay, so it's always brown but sometimes it's more brown and sometimes it's less brown). That was the month we arrived - September.
It was more than the landscape that was different, of course. My toys began to change. I had coral snake toys, tarantulas and Kachina dolls. The houses were one story with flat roofs (I began pretending my brothers dressers were stairs because I missed playing on staircases). Instead of a river down the road with a neighborhood dog named Blue there was a patch of desert across the street I was warned not to enter because of the deadly snakes, spiders, and cactus. I would go anyway of course, but I would end up leaving terrified of the holes in the ground I knew were snake dwellings. Oh, and there was a neighborhood dog too but it was a Doberman Pincher that one day chased me down the street and bit me in the butt when it caught me....The bigger world was absolutely terrifying.