The Reason I Love Yellow

I love yellow. I love all things yellow... even mustard..... (Having said that I do think that mustard yellow has its place and that it should be used sparsely).  The other day when I was giving this blog a new look and I saw the background that I'm using here I knew that it was the right one... reason?: 1. Because it makes me feel happy. It makes me feel like the sun is shining down on my head and shoulders and.... 2. It is the colour of the season that we are experiencing right now. Autumn is soooo yellow.

Now, I know all you Easterners know that fall is all about red but here in this neck of the country, the majority of our trees are Cottonwoods or Poplar.... and they turn yellow in the fall (and sometimes, a nice mellony yellow).  We don't get red... or at least much red (some in the underbrush in late fall).  I never felt my skin respond to Yellow until I moved here. Now when autumn (I love the way autumn rolls off my tongue) arrives, I can feel yellow.

Some of you are giving yourself a mental shake now and thinking, "How can you feel yellow?"

My answer to that is, I don't have a flippin' clue, but it's true, I do feel it.  My body is a sponge at this time of the year and it is sucking as much yellow into my soul in an effort to preserve life as I know it through the long months of winter greys and blues. I'm like a squirrel madly rushing around storing pine cones for food... only I'm storing yellow.

Each day I go out into the yellow as much as I can.... I just look around me and absorb it.  This morning there is ice on the sheep's bucket of water. (Yes the sheep are still here.) The new tin roof on the electrical shed came none too soon... there's ice on it as well and it is red-grey instead of red. But as the sun has been warming things this morning everything has begun to turn yellow again. (Except for the red roof).

I know that it is only another couple of weeks that things will feel yellow and then the yellow will fall to the ground and turn brown and the skies will darken to grey and then everything will be grey and blue.... boo hoo!

But in the meantime I'm going to suck up as much yellow as I possibly can....

A post without it just wouldn't be right.....

Wait for it....

They call me mellow yellow.... just butter it!

I'm off to remove my yellow nighty and put on a yellow shirt and take the dogs for a walk through the yellow woods.... see y'all.