"A Zen Batik..."

...painted with Daniel Smith's magical iridescent sapphire

watercolor.

Tilt it one way and it reads a soft blueish violet

with a rich satiny sheen.

Tilt it the other way...

and it takes on a glowing, sparkling-rich, deep sapphire color.

When digitally scanned

the magic vaporizes and the color become flat and stormy gray.

Such is life, sometimes.

I wish my family and friends on the eastern seaboard

a speedy recovery from any damage

suffered from Irene.

May the palette of your skies and coastlines return to

the sparkly sapphire of summer.

“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime.
Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Never make your most important decisions
when you are in your worst moods.
Wait.
Be patient.
The storm will pass.
The spring will come.”
~Robert H. Schuller