A first-person travel account from the "From Woods & Fields" column by Connie Magoffin about a Southwest trip to research natural dyes. She visits the Hubbell Trading Post at Ganado, the Grand Canyon, the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff (with its Navajo weaving displays), and UNLV, where she finds L. Paul Mercer's scrapbook of dye recipes. It closes with her dried rabbitbrush and mormon tea yielding yellows, orange-golds and greens.