Well well well, it’s nice to see you again. Today’s subject is just the color green. When I was reading through all of these prompts, I thought I would have had the easiest time with this one. If you don’t know, I moved to Missouri a few years ago, and if you’re not aware… Missouri is probably the greenest place possible. It’s unbelievably green. It’s aggressively green. It is so green here that sometimes I find my brain tuning out the green like you would tune out a droning background noise. It’s actually pretty easy for me, because historically I don’t really enjoy green in the big scheme of colors (though it is my daughter Luna’s favorite). It was never… I don’t know… special enough? It is everywhere. It represents the base of the plant that the beautiful, colorful, important, interesting flower sits on. To me, its commonality was its downfall. But you know what? I now think that maybe that is what is wonderful about green. It is universal in its representation of life. Viewed from space, it is smeared across our planet; representing something unique to here. Chemically, the Chlorophyll that gives us that wonderful green is one of the most important substances to the existence of all life.

This picture I took for this green prompt is the product of me putting baby Bill into the truck (to give mom a little quiet time) and simply heading West out of my driveway. This scene in isolation is gorgeous, but stepping out from behind the lens reveals that this image is everywhere around me, its combined beauty is blinding in its magnitude. The hard part of choosing a green photo was deciding where to point my camera; which of these moments could possibly be more beautiful than the next? In the end, I just had to hastily press the shutter, because trying to decide which green from which plant is the most beautiful is a fool’s errand.

I am lucky to have green things around me. We all are.