Saturday, October 2, 2010

Aspen Gold



October 2, 2010

Dear Nathan,

You will never believe who we met here in Colorado… well you might guess because you probably have noticed that Wonderful Wooly, who weaves lovely dreams into your sleep, has been on vacation. He’s here in Colorado, visiting his cousin Pinion Painter. Wooly was delighted to see us and assured us that he left a hugh supply of dreams with Keton, the cat, asking him to sprinkle them into your sleep each night while he is away.

Pinion Painter is in charge of colors here. Wooly and he have been working at one of the most luscious jobs of the whole painting year. You see rabbitbrush spends the summer wrapped in glorious gold flowers. Pinion Painter is very partial to gold and loves those rabbitbrush plants so much that he saves his best gold paint bucket especially for them. You can see them smiling in their fluffy clumps of gold right at the edge of trails and over the mesa top hills.

Well, just like you, Nathan, they grow and change. They loved their golden glow. Pinion Painter did a scrumptious job coloring them. In fact he did such a good job that as they grew their flowers burst out of their color and became lovely tan and brown seed pods… the kind that Swirly Canyon, the Windkeeper, loves to send parachuting on their way over the hills.




The most amazing thing happened. Pinion Painter and Wonderful Wooly, seeing that rabbitbrush didn’t need its gold anymore, went right out and gathered all the gold color, mixed it carefully with sunshine dust, and painted all the aspen leaves in the valleys and on the mountain sides with that glorious gold. They really did a fine job at their work. Wonderful Wooly used that twitchy tail of his to fling the paint about, while Pinion Painter, a bit more precise in his work, tucked golden glow under each Aspen and even on the sides of big canyon walls. Wooly had such a fine time flinging his tail about that he zipped some fiery orange color from the mountain sandstone and painted half the aspen on the hillside with it. Pinion thought it a bit strange but did say he liked it.

So now the gold of the flowers and the fire orange of the mountains adorn the trees, seed pods catch the huffs and puffs from Swirly Canyon, and Wooly is ready to return to you and dream weaving, having been filled with buckets of lovely golden dreams, just for you. Keton will be glad to let Wooly sprinkle dreams again and you, dear Nathan, can snuggle off to sleep with swirling rainbows of color dreams, sent by Pinion Painter, to help guide you in GrowingBoy Land.

Lots of love,

Grammy Kay

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