Wildflowers by Tom Petty

It seems like we've entered another rainy season in the high desert. We wait with anticipation for the wildflower seeds of 2023 to germinate and paint our landscape. Last year we experienced our very own little private front yard wildflower superbloom. Only the year before it was overcrowded with invasive mustard plants that can grow almost waist high in a mear fortnite.

By luck and chance, only a few guests will have the opportunity to take in this lottery moment of mojave desert beauty. We had the chance last year during a small vacancy window for room renovations. We picked as many colors during the early sunrise and wrapped them in a little boquet. Under the carport we hung our lottery memory to dry by the warm spring cross breeze that channels down our terraced driveway though the backyard.

Between demo-ing faux closet walls and applying knock down wall texture, we found time to dance to Sam Cooke on the record player, trying the Mexican restaurant down the road, eventually venturing into the park to stargaze. It’s picture perfect, the moment a child makes the connection between out of pitch nursery rhymes and twinkling stars within a pitch black sky.

Nearing a year later the colors have yet to fade as the dried floral arrangement hangs among polaroid milemarkers of growth and love.

<3 Matt