A Red Day

Are you wearing red today?  I have on a red knit top to show my support for a movement of the heart by women for women.  Want to learn more about preventing heart attacks and strokes?  Head over to the American Heart Association's site, Go Red for Women. 

February is all about hearts and the color red, two of my favorite things.  The heart stands for all the good things in life:  Love, romance, relationships...with yourself and others, compassion, joy, charity, affection, body and soul.  Passionate red, blood red, crimson, and scarlet, oh yes...the color red evokes emotion.  

   "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.

They must be felt with the heart."

~ Helen Keller    

Seeing Red

The color red fits into February like a Valentine fits into an envelope. Red flowers, red hearts, and today is the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women celebration. It’s a day to raise awareness of heart disease in women.

I'm wearing a warm, red turtleneck for Women Wear Red day and The Cottage on the Corner gives a nod to the day by sporting photos of all things red from tucked-away files.

Looking out the window on a cold winter morn...I discover the sun rising red and reach into memories of...

Red flowers seen while on a walk with a little boy's hand in mine

 

And oh what red flowers the summer did bring...

Lilies of all kinds...

The Queen of the garden... roses robed in red

Tight buds ready to unfurl in brilliant red...

Tears from the heavens shimmering on roses of red...

Dahlias dancing in red

And the trees...glorious dressed in shades of red

Reaching for red in the vegetable garden...

Red, hot  chili peppers...

Trees heavy with apples ripe for the pickin'...

It's a spectacular end to the day when the sun sets red

 

"We  never know how high we are till we are called to rise. 

Then if we are true to form our statures touch the sky."

~Emily Dickinson