The rich colors of the desert are among those aspects I love about the Southwest. The mountains are another. In the southern part of Arizona, the mountain ranges appear dark blue from a distance. Rainwater trickles through crevices and forms underground springs and rivers. The steady flow carves tunnels and caves before the sparkling stream enters a river or disappears deep beneath the sand to form cool wells at the mountain's base.
Two of my stories take place against the backdrop of the Arizona desert, in a fictitious old west town between the mountains and the San Pedro River.