Dear reader, at this moment Isabella is downstairs playing the living daylights out of her violin. Apparently her teacher told her the sonata she's learning contains a cadenza that has never been attempted by any of her students (they play a simplified version instead...and by simplified I don't mean easy).
To Izzy, that was like throwing down the gauntlet.
You should hear her. It's pure electricity down there: her sheer will, the friction of bow on strings, the energy of the music, this beautiful winterspring morning...
I wandered outside to try and capture something of my beloved van Gogh blue.
The air, the sky, these achingly pristine colors, Izzy's chords and arpeggios drifting through the window like the strands of a mesmerizing web. I held my face up to the sun and didn't think it could get more magical.
Until this.
He appeared out of thin air. That's magic, isn't it?
This tiny fellow, the buzz of his wings, his swooping into blossoms for the merest sample...so close I could practically hear his heart fluttering with joy. It nearly took my breath away.
And every time he turned I saw a new color. I do think he may have been showing off, just a little.
I know I've said this before, but if ever there was a time to visit Las Vegas, it's now. Especially, dear reader, if you live where the light is meager, the clouds are low, and everything still seems cold and grey. And by Las Vegas I don't mean Las Vegas proper, darling. Heavens, no. I mean the desert. The red rocks. This neverending sky. Pack some books, a picnic lunch, your hiking shoes. Take a pair of sunglasses. Bring a friend. And prepare to be clarified. Prepare to be a conduit for the energy that is humming through this place.
Don't come looking for the color green, per se, but do come looking to notice about fifty thousand shades of brown. There's a certain beauty in nuance, dear reader.
But mostly, lean against a gigantic rock and turn your face to the sky, to the sun...and you will learn something about yourself and about this place that very few people who visit this town ever seem to discover.