the blue muse

Yellow is cheerful, exuberant, cozy, potential.

Yellow is summer and silly, chartreuse and daffodil.

Yellow is the color of bright new beginnings.

Yellow is flaxen, buff, and prince of pastel.

Yellow is banana and morning, sunbeam and smile.

Yellow is canary, goldfinch, swallowtail.

Yellow is lemon and meringue, primrose and light.

Yellow is pride, portent, and long golden silence.

Yellow is sunshine, towhead, and dandelion kisses.

Yellow is coward and jaundice, the keeper of sallow.

Yellow is blond and beauty, with a slight hint of beige.

Yellow is ranunculus, the maker of hay.

Yellow is pineapple dreams, topaz visions.

Yellow is gilded, brilliant, hope.

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Wishing you a weekend filled with cheer.

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Because some days, we could use a little reminder.

I know I need to remind myself quite often lately, I have been
busy busy with graphics work, gardening, and loading
photography and new jewelry pieces onto etsy.

Making a living as an artist is hard work.

But even so, it’s the best kind of labor. A labor of love.

So today, at least once, stop everything and just breathe.

Inhale.

Take in the world around you.

That’s my plan, anyway.

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Wishing you a day filled with color.

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It has been perfect gardening weather for days now, sunny, mild, birds singing, flowers flowering, living outside kind of weather. I spent much of the weekend outside, working hard clearing out the one section I never tackled last year. I was reminded, once again, how manual labor really can be good for the soul.

Of course, I had to keep my head down and concentrate on the little patch of earth right in front of me, because every time I looked up at the jungle I still have to conquer, I wanted to go back inside. The big picture is a giant mess, so I got down on my hands and knees and focused on the small stuff.

The gorgeous color in these geraniums.

The feel of the sun on my back.

The barn swallows swooping overhead, chattering away.

And it worked. I found the peace I needed and made it halfway through that section. At the end of the day, I was filthy and exhausted, but it felt so good to stop thinking for a while and just be, to focus on just one thing and enjoy the rhythm of accomplishment.

I didn’t allow myself to worry about how the weeds will grow back, how much more I still have to do, what I’m going to do about that invasive vine.

I just went about my business like a flower, turning my face to the sun, soaking up life and color and doing what must be done.

Which is to say, I think I bloomed.

Orange is friendly, ebullient, flame and feather.

Orange is citrus and cream, ochre and fortune.

Orange is the color of embers at dawn.

Orange is apricot visions and two kinds of passion.

Orange is pumpkin and candy, the ripe scent of autumn.

Orange is auburn and carrot, antithesis of gray.

Orange is tangerine and sherbet, children and sunset.

Orange is single, stands tall, and gives no one rhyme.

Orange is lily and luster, butterfly and kitten.

Orange is lewd and lascivious, the smile of clown.

Orange is oreole, parrot, terra cotta and time.

Orange is peach and coral, cheeky and brilliant.

Orange is father of yellow, close to golden.

Orange is happiness, jubilant, high.

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Wishing you a weekend filled with smiles.

you are my smile and my rhythm

the sun and sky and ever after

the bloom of hope

in dreams of tomorrow

the memory

of love

in my heart

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It was a cold, chilly, windy weekend weather-wise. But the sun was shining in my heart, so I didn’t mind. There was lots of food and family time, lots of reading and relaxing, lots of life and laughter.

On Saturday, I pulled dandelions forever. My back was sore, but it felt good to be out there, good to accomplish a simple chore, good to listen to the birds sing and the wind blow.

The trees all have their spring green on, everything looks lush and verdant and new.

Possibility hangs in the air like sunshine.

Close your eyes, make a wish.

I dare ya.

Red is scarlet, vermilion, burgundy, rose.

Red is raucous and riot, crimson and season.

Red is the color of intensity’s song.

Red is sanguine and blowzy and keeps our hearts beating.

Red is berry and cherry, the apple of my eye.

Red is rouge and warm lips, and makes no apology.

Red is ruby and valentine, romance and blush.

Red is ritual and sacrifice, sound of life’s breath.

Red is door and desire, deliberate and pounding.

Red is fiery and loud, the pulse of compassion.

Red is heat and hope, blood and sunrise.

Red is cardinal and carmine, love and lipstick.

Red is mother to maroon, pink’s incarnation.

Red is telltale, mysterious, sly.

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Wishing you a weekend filled with love.

The shape of things is always changing.
What you thought was round suddenly becomes triangular,
what you thought would fit suddenly becomes
uncomfortably tight.

Growth happens, even when you feel dormant.

And somehow, you suddenly find yourself blooming
in bright bold colors.

Change. Resilience. Tenacity.

Each fragile flower holds all of these in her heart.

Along with a tiny ray of sun.

It’s all there, waiting.

Go ahead,

open.

It was a glorious weekend with perfect weather and much time spent outdoors. Mama bluebird spent most of her time watching over the nest box, not amused that I was out there invading her space, but never straying too far away. There are three eggs in the nest, and I am hoping that this year, we will have babies.

Between the sparrows and the swallows and the other larger birds (not to mention a certain unmentionable kitten) it is always a fight for survival. And so, she waits. And I wait with her, holding my breath and watching over them all.

Mother bird, mother gardener, mother nature, all working hand in hand to hatch three tiny lives. Of course, in truth, Papa bluebird is lending a hand as well, ever vigilant and protective.

The world outside my window is vibrant and verdant and filled with gifts. Windows are open, and all day the music plays… birdsong and peeping frogs and rustling breezes filled with scent.

And I bask in the glow of this sun, this promise of life.

The possibility.

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Wishing you a week filled with music.

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Purple is lavender, passion, velvet and rain.

Purple is crocus and violet, pansy and sunset.

Purple is the color of rhythm and rhyme.

Purple calls out your name in the deep dark of night.

Purple is royalty’s secret, the keeper of time.

Purple is grape and wine, proud pie and mulberry.

Purple dances with burgundy, saturated bliss.

Purple is visions of sugar plum, amethyst sparkle.

Purple is mauve and melody, habit and heather.

Purple is sassy and decadent, a cheshire cat smile.

Purple is bruise and empathy, majestic mountains.

Purple is mist and morning, tornado and vine.

Purple is heart and poet and three shades of hunger.

Purple is age and laughter, inertia’s reply.

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Wishing you a weekend filled with laughter.