Blue is the color of constancy and truth. It is the color of the sky as ephemeral and transparent as it may be, it is always there. Even on a cloudy or gray day there is the hope that the clarity of azure blue will eventually break through. The true blue of the daylight sky is associated with the continuity of yet another day, dependable and consoling. Survival was difficult in primitive times, so the dawning of a new day, in any shade of blue, must have been comforting.
Because of the enormous expanse of sky, we see blue as distant and receding into outer space. It suggests the ancient past or faraway future. As Goethe wrote in his Theory of Colors:
A blue surface seems to return from us . . . but as we readily follow an agreeable object that flies from us, so we love to contemplate blue, not because it advances to us, but because it draws us after it.
In fact, gazing at the blue sky brings a sense of peace and tranquility to the human spirit. It is imprinted in our psyches as a retiring, quiescent color.
My bedroom is blue. I love blue flowers in my garden. And my garage is painted blue (walls and ceiling) to discourage spiders from living there. Believe it or not, it is thought to fool them into thinking it is the sky. That is why so many porch ceilings (especially in the south) are painted blue. It is also believed to keep away evil spirits.
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1. Pencil eraser
2. Blue hydrangeas (dried from my garden)
3. Toothpicks
4. Closeup of a beautiful blue vase
5. Annie's bedroom window covering
6. Blue bendable drinking straws
7. The top of a blue candle that has been burned already
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