self portrait challenge {red}

self portrait, canon digital rebel xt

I am extremely attracted to the color red. It seems when I am feeling most passionate in my life, somehow this color appears before me. I stumbled upon this hat while out shopping the other day. I've been on the hunt for a red hat for quite some time but haven't connected with any of them until I found this one.

Red moves me. It finds me. It speaks volumes of rich, deep, romantic feelings.

Lately I have fallen deep into all these passionate emotions. When this happens, I can get a bit quiet with my thoughts. This past week I have done just that. I haven't blogged much or emailed or phoned. I've just put my head down. I work. I create. I dream. I write. I think. I feel. I suppose it is a bit of a digesting period of some sort. Then I resurface from this cocoon and begin to share.

I have wonderful people in my life that get this about me. Sometimes the best poetry, jewelry, photographs and drawings are born out of these times.

Do you ever have a string of days where this happens to you? This passionate flow of quietness?

(all the scarves you see behind me were handmade by my mother and two sisters. yummy them. lucky me.)

Update: My nephew Mark (darlene's son) was just in a serious car accident. He is currently in surgery for internal injuries. I cannot sleep. It is 1:30am and I wish I could be in the hospital with all of them. I am sharing this here because I know that I have some pretty powerful readers of my blog and he will need all the prayers, lit candles and healing vibes he can get over the next few days. I will not know the severity of his injuries until he is out of surgery. Thank you in advance for your love.