My newest earthly addiction

My newest obsession - GREEN

I think I am turning into one of those politically incorrect radical earth PETA groupies. I am obsessed with the mass quantity of GREEN lately. Although I will always be partial to Orange I mean the color of my world. This day I have noticed there are other colors that surrounded us.

The obsession of earthly objects became noticed when we went to a wedding in Kansas. Never before had I ever seen so many trees in one area. Bright colors filled the sky, and the air smelled different than anything I have ever known. Perhaps because living born and raised in Las Vegas, NV you tend to breathe exhaust and occasionally dust or ash from our lovely neighboring state which tends to always be on fire.

This obsession was not like any thing else. I wanted to preserve it for life. I wanted to bottle up the smell to live in harmony with the elements I had discovered. Since that is just ridiculous, I simply framed my favorite leaves that were found. Out of the 20 leaves I brought back on a plane and through the desert. I have the 3 orange leaves framed. Even though my roots pull me towards the strange color everyone loves to hate, these days I am looking for something more alive... hence the fresh green leaf opposed to the almost fallen orange leaf that I have framed on my desk.

I never was able to keep that fresh air feeling, and often times I find myself searching for that smell or the perhaps moment when I felt as if I could fly. That random awkward thought always passes as if it was not so much the surrounding trees, but the present company that lingers in the past that gave me this high.