This drawing is a part of a series of four sequential drawings. A flame intermingles with a branch of seeds from a shrub called rabbitbrush. It gets its name because rabbits love to use the shrub as a hiding place. Every fall, rabbitbrush turns Colorado landscapes yellow along with aspens, cottonwoods, and grasses—it’s one of my favorite fall plants. Rabbitbrush grows quickly in burned, stressed soils. After the fire, the shrub sprouts vigorously. The plant also disperses a lot of seeds that can be transported over long distances through wind. And sometimes the plants that quickly grow after a fire produce flowers right away. They are a great source of nutrition for local wildlife.