1000 gifts , Blue

It certainly couldn't be a missing you blue.

Or a longing for blue. The blues of leaving a heart somewhere.

Where I'm purring on you.

Hollering out self-pity for the romantic you.

That wouldn't be right, resigned as I am to the loyalty of you. The calm and peaceful renewal that is the source of life here in the now.

You were cool and hypnotic and heavenly.

I want wrap up in you, knit you into grooves of these days, paint the royal round and through my soul.

You were sky and pastel, powder and cornflower. Indigo, cobalt, ice, and peacock. There was caribbean and steel, and denim and lake.

Stir me in all of you.

Stir into me

you

blue

110. track and mountains, University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff

111. sagauro cactus, Sonoran desert area, Scottsdale, Arizona

112. railing in stands at UNA

113. becoming night sky, standing for the national anthem

114. Grand Canyon

115. sky and shadows, coming out of Ponderosa Pine forest into Sedona area

116. Chapel of the Holy Cross, Sedona

117. desert palm at Doubletree Resort and Spa, Scottsdale

118. ocotillo cactus

119. reading glasses

~these photos and sentiments are shared with the gratitude community inspired and lead by Ann Voskamp @ Holy Experience .