Becoming Blue

This morning I finally had time to wake up slowly.

Woman at the Window by Salvador Dali

To re-play all the events of the past week and process them. To take stock of where I am and where I need to go. To breathe again. To gain perspective.

And four cups of tea later, I discovered that I was surrounded by the color blue. Slowly, over the past month or so, Blue was making itself known to me.

Three weeks ago, those harbingers of happiness -- the bluebirds -- returned to my yard and laid three beautiful blue eggs.


I hadn't remembered to check on them until this morning. So, in between sips, I crept down the back hill in my pajamas and knocked on the box.

No mama answered. And there was no "peep" from inside. And for just a moment, the tiniest note of fear sounded in the air...

But when I looked inside, all was well.


Two sleeping blue babies...in the shape of a heart.

Call it what you will. A smile from heaven. A breath of new life. A sense that all is well in the world.

And when I returned to my cup, I relaxed and took stock of where I am with my Summer projects. And I realized that all of them involve Blue.


I've almost finished the light blue stripe on my rainbow shawl...and next is an even deeper blue.

My final bead journal project is on a blue background, as is my next Alice in Wonderland block...and well, there's that block of Tiffany blue...and the haute couture beading challenge which is primarily blue.

I suppose in a year that began with a blue moon, I shouldn't be so surprised to find myself surrounded by blue.


Since I'm not in the habit of feeling blue, I'm off to make blue while the sun shines...