Dear Grandchildren,
Which is your favorite color?
Today I think blue is my favorite color but it isn't my favorite every day. Sometimes red or pink and often green or yellow are my favorite colors.
But today blue is very beautiful to me.
It all started while I was reading my book outside and I heard a blue Stellar's Jay on the very top of the tool shed in our backyard.
Too bad he didn't stay there long enough for me to get his picture.
But imagine him right at the very peak of the roof loudly tapping his strong beak against something that was probably a nut of some kind.
It was fascinating.
Birds are very alert creatures...they have to be. Life can be very dangerous for them but I was sorry not to get a picture of this beautiful blue bird.
...it wasn't long before I saw him again near the deck...
...and then digging away for bugs, I think, since I didn't see any worms dangling from his beak....
....then I saw this...
...where did this nut come from? He must have buried it earlier in the grass and picked it up again as he gracefully flew away...
what a beautiful blue bird...
what a beautiful blue bird...
It's hard to get good close-ups of birds because they're always moving around and don't want me to get too close.
That got me thinking about other blue objects in our backyard like...
...the little blue ladder
...or the old blue chair
..the tiny blue lobelia flower that pops up around the yard every spring and lets me add it to a planter...
... the purple-blue hydrangea most of whose mates have really been burned by the hot summer sun...
....or the purple-blue flowers in this hanging basket on the arbor...
....you all know about the blue mats on the picnic table and the "girl dish" holding 15 small pebbles, one representing each member of our family.
One of those pebbles represents you, you know...you are special, unique, one of a kind. Just like these little rocks are not the same, none of you, none of us is exactly alike....we are similar in many ways but we have been created differently for a very good reason. We thank God for creating you just the way you are, so very special, so very wonderful and so very beautiful.
More blue things...
I had left the book I was reading on the table and ... it was blue...
This is a wonderful story of a young Iranian man who met Jesus in a prison cell. It's a remarkable story and one you might want to read as you get older.
...and today the sky was as beautifully blue as it was just the other day when these jets from the airshow flew overhead..
Yes, blue is a very beautiful color!
God does everything well, very well.
