My Blog!!

I had a hard time figuring out what I was going to write my blog about. I really did. But, I finally got a good idea. I decided that every week I am going to write a list of my top ten favorite things in one category and my top ten least favorite things in the same category. Good idea, right? I got the idea from one of my favorite books called "The Princess Diaries" by Meg Cabot. The main character and her friend are always writing lists and I always looked forward to the next one. They were entertaining and helpful at the same time. There's a lot to say when you love something and a lot to say when you hate something. Powerful emotions are often the easiest things to write about.
Anyway, for this first entry I decided to do something completely different. I am going to write about the sky. I have no idea what it is, but for some reason, the sky fascinates me. It moves so fast, and changes into so many different colors. The clouds are just amazing. They can be small and puffy, or huge and swirly, stretching across the whole blue dome above us. The sunset is especially entrancing. No matter what colors streak the clouds--pink, purple, orange, red, yellow--the sun slipping beneath the ground is the high point of my day. The yellow begins to creep up from the bottom of the sky, then melts slowly into the blue, purple sneaking in between. The streaky clouds slowly turn cotton candy-pink, and the puffy ones glow gold in the jewel-blue sky. The sky gradually gets lighter, and lighter, as the sun spreads its golden rays across the heavens. How gorgeous. I like to admire it by walking around my neighborhood at around seven o'clock. The weather has been getting colder, though, so I probably won't doing that for much longer.
There was a museum that I went to once. I think it was the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in Boston. One of the exibits was called "Roof Camera." All it was was a camera that somebody had set up on the roof of the museum that stayed there all 24 hours of the day. The footage was shown on a screen inside the museum so you could look at whatever the sky was doing that day. Apparently it was feeling lousy the day we were there because it was pouring rain. Plink, plink, plink, right onto the lense of the camera. Which probably wasn't very good for whover was running the exibit because they would probably need to buy a new lense, but it was kind of cool for us. I would like to see that exibit on a clear day, though. Just to see what it's like to look straight up into that endless blue. When you do try to look straight into the sky, usually you get blinded from the sun. I always do, anyway, and it doesn't look so hot through sun glasses. Anyways, I would like to see the footage from a clear day to look into the sky, and see if that deep blue stuff ever stops. It always seemed to me that it was like water, endless, deep, and beautiful. Always looking like you could fall in at any second. Like it went on forever.
I suppose it's just the sky. Just a reflection of the oceans that span across our grand planet. But it seems like so much more than just the atmosphere portecting us from the toxic gasses beyond Earth. All I know, is that there's nothing else like it. On Earth, anyway.

Next week's topic-Movies!!