wearing sunglasses indoors...

this past week

in my little world

mother nature has been unenthusiastic

~~

i know her box of crayons is large enough to sink a cruise ship

but

she's been favoring just the grey and white shades lately

~~

the funny thing is

i hadn't really been paying that much attention to it

until

i took photos of my tulips

~~

now granted

these are

the tulips

that waved at me while i was shopping at whole foods

the tulips

that danced like children in a splash pool

once i got them home and settled in a vase

the tulips

that made me smile just by sitting at the edge of my kitchen sink

but

they are also the tulips

that made me want to put my sunglasses on

when i looked at them

on my computer screen

maybe it's just because

i love old and vintage and faded

~

maybe it's because

my world has been so grey and colorless

but

seriously

my eyes actually hurt when i looked at their photos

~~

so in order not to blind any of you

i played with the photos

and

ended up loving them even more than I did

when they were all dancing around in their bright pink tutus

~

now granted

if you live somewhere

where all the crayons that mother nature uses

have been scattered out all over the floor

making you step over them on a regular basis

i'm sure

the tulip brightness

won't bother you

but

if you're like me

i'm guessing the toned down versions might be a bit more soothing to your

winter soul

today

and

as if mother nature somehow knew i was talking about her

she just started coloring outside the lines

a tiny bit

adding a few shades of

blue and yellow

to the world i see

outside my office window

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