The saguaros in the lower half of this image represent life. The contrasting top half of this photograph features dead stone, yet nature illuminates it with its last light and brings it to life as well. This story is best told by the colors themselves. The rich greens of nature rise upwards as the saguaro march towards the wall of Peralta Canyon. That very wall will stop their advance – nothing can live on that wall. Yet that harsh stone canyon wall in the upper half of this image glows with the symbolic spirit of nature, as the setting sun gilds the rock, and makes it into a work of great beauty.