Exhilarating blue

flowers of early Spring

Blue, in many and various shades, attracts me. I first knew it as a child in a Catholic school, where there were blue medals of the Virgin Mary to buy. (You can buy them on Amazon now.)

I longed for one of these and never had one and the longing centred on the blue enamel, rather than the Madonna. Nothing about the theology offered to me in my childhood …