Description

Long Way Home
Globemallow Blooms and Picacho Peak, AZ
Bloomed 3-2-24 4:45 PM

10×30
$2400

For years I’ve preferred the long way home from Tucson to Mesa, on the Pinal Pioneer Parkway. It’s a two-lane backroad through open land and a few ranches. There are lonely dirt roads you can pull off and explore, think, or just kick around some rocks.

On a spring day I looked west from this spot towards Picacho Peak, where hordes of people were frolicking in fields of poppies and lupine, and felt quite content with the stands of purple Globemallow at my feet.

Sometimes the longer route is better; sometimes less in more.