Once upon a wall in a city far, far away, Mother Nature let her hair down and went crazy with her spray cans. You don’t often think of her as a tagger but in this case she saw an empty wall and went for it. Usually she works with earth tones or pastels and sometimes a simple black and white, but every once in a while, maybe after a long weekend in Key West or after watching the Hindu festival of colors, she really hangs one on.

This image is a collection of colors you don’t often see together. They’re not wrong, although they may be a little jarring to someone with a more sensitive palette, they just give you pause to look more closely at them and wonder. What was on her mind when she layered that bright vivid lime green against that orange-ish red. Then to add that tracery of greys and off white to soften all that open space to the left plus add the deep intense scarlet of the berries as a counterpoint, it just shows that she has the chops to pull off anything she wants to do and make you like it. Or at least make me like it, your mileage may vary.

Lots of us are still seeing the white on dirty white of old snow and the dull grey of two month old ice on the sidewalks, so this is a breath of fresh air, color-wise. The city is Santa Fe which can almost pull this look off all by itself but in any event it’s an invigorating view on a cold winter’s day. Got to remember that it is only 31 shopping days to the Spring equinox and then some of us are going to start seeing sights like this for real. Think Spring.