"Colors of the Desert" by Mother Nature

Just when I’ve had enough of the heat, the flies, the red sand everywhere and the missing beach, I’ll catch a sunset and all of my woes are instantly frozen in time. The sun never fails to transform the sky and the distant horizon into hues of amazing color. The sun itself is typically an intense orange as a mist of red and pink permeate and accentuate the blues and purples of the evening sky. When the clouds are plentiful, the colors swirl together into a techni-color blanket that stretches from Uluru to Kata Tjuta. The twilight hour remains as magical, if not more, when a layer of peachy orange is sandwiched between the dark landscape and the violet night clouds. It's as though my window is a perpetually changing painting for the sun always varies but never forgets to set…