Blue - and green, red, yellow - Christmas

Actually, right now Duluth is covered in fog. You can hardly see the house across the street. It's foggy because of the warm, mild weather. The little snow we had melted and we don't have any more in the near forecast. I'd really like to have a blue Christmas - I mean a Blue Sky Christmas. When the sun is out it changes everything. What is nice about Duluth is that we have the beautiful great lake, Lake Superior along miles of our border. The color of the lake changes all the time based on time of day and weather. When the lake is blue, blue and the sky is blue, blue it extra gorgeous. Another wonderful sight is come February when more ice has formed on the lake and some chunks of it displace and stack up on the shore. The chunks have yet another shade of blue - almost a glowing blue. Have you ever seen this? You can also hear the ice chunks move and shift in a bass tone. I do like blue in the winter.

Other colors this time of the year is the Bentleyville light exhibit. It covers our Bayfront Park and has many many lights and figures up. There is a giant steel Christmas tree - tallest in the U.S.? - that lights to the music. There are tunnels of lights, scenes of lights ranging from dinosaurs, to musicians, to 12 days of Christmas, and even golfers. An outdoor ice rink is nearby and the silhouettes of skaters and people walking on ice are there with the lit skyline of Duluth. Pretty nice.
I hope you have a great holiday season and that you color your world with music. Play some Red Wing, some Greensleave, some Yellow Rose of Texas and Orange Blossom Special. Dulcimers had no-calorie sweetness to the day and a sound that is sweet by day and by night.