I have taken thousands of photos out on Tonopah Rob’s farm over the past year and have been delighted to gaze upon so much beauty day after day. The desert offers many a shade of brown and tan but only rarely do vibrant colors emerge from our near barren landscape. Out on the farm I have watched purple and orange cauliflower mature. Carrots are pulled from the earth in red, yellow, purple, and orange hues. Blue and red potatoes hide below the surface as do the red, white, and golden beets. Lettuce, too, grows in a rainbow of colors out here. The flowers intermingle amongst the plots as invitations to pollinating insects to come work their magic while other flowers act as bug barriers. The sunflowers, bright yellow and orange with metallic blue center, tower overhead while offering shade to the ground-hugging veggies below.

Working on the farm can be like a small vacation where the conformity and oppression of the city melts away and nature blooms for me to stand in awe of her majesty.