One visit to my blog and you are well aware that I'm smitten by the color blue. I'm on a constant search for the perfect true blue flower, the most vibrant blue sky, blue shadows on snow and the clearest blue water. Then there are those haunting blue eyes. . . My Italian grandfather passed his blue eyes on to two of his sons, not including my father, so I have kept the color brown continuing to our daughters too. And I'd pay most any ransom for another piece of Granny Wells' wild huckleberry pie.

There are so many 'blues' in the study of art but my favorite comes from the Der Blaue Reiter [Blue Rider] group of expressionist artists in Berlin in the early 20th Century.

THE LARGE BLUE HORSES

Franz Marc - 1911- Walker Art Center Permanent Collection - Minneapolis

Maria & Franz Marc (l.), Heinrich Campendonk (2nd from r.), & Wassily Kandinsky (seated) - 1911

Finally, a little bit of watercolor from my own palette, blue, of course.

Blue is the color du jour for Favourite Things Thursday, the fun brainchild of none other than Blue herself. Visit her here!

Crazy rabbit!

The Walker Art Center of contemporary art is one of the first museums I visited when I moved to the Twin Cities two years ago this month. It is a beautiful building which has the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden literally in its back yard, including this sculpture. The large sculpture, size compared to the bench behind, is called Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers made from bronze and limestone by Barry Flanagan in 1983.

This photo always makes me smile because of the strange contrast between a playful bunny and a bronze bell. . .what was Flanagan thinking?. . .all the more appropriate for Misty Dawn's Camera Critters this week. Visit more incredible creatures here and maybe share a milk bone in honor of CC's 1/2 year anniversary!