Luminarias and dessert in the desert. People who don’t live in the desert might wonder how the winter holidays go here. I’d say they go pretty well. Sure it is warmer and we wear sunglasses, but we have trees or we decorate the cacti. Some folks use luminarias or you can visit the ones on display at the Botanical Garden. Since it is warm here we can also eat dessert like ice cream before we go into the desert. Note the spelling difference because while we make wonderful desserts nobody wants you to eat any desert, unless you’re a dirt bike type.
I grew up in Washington (the State), though I’ve worked in Washington (the City). Both get snow so I Know Snow. That is one reason I like Arizona. Here I get snow perhaps every fourth year or so. If I want snow I can get in a plane and go to snow world USA (God bless you every snowy city). Northern Arizona also has snow if I want to drive in it. I went to school in New York (up-state) where they really have snow and cold. So dessert in the desert sounds good to me. As is said in warmer climates: “it may be hot in the Summer, but in the Winter I don’t have to shovel sunshine”.
Here is a quote by Edward Abbey I found that I very much like:
“The desert wears… a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting — but waiting for what?”
So what is my desert waiting for? I’m not sure, maybe Santa and his sleigh; and Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner (my personal favorite), Blitzen, and Rudolph (starting on the team just in the 20th century). Maybe one of the reindeer has a sweet tooth and would like dessert when they show. Santa just might show up at my house this year, I’ve been a little bit good. Just a little.
