Day 2-photo challenge

A friend of mine. She has been posting photos one everyday for a month. I have really enjoyed it. So I am going to try and do the same. So this is my day 2. This photo is of me atop a rock formation at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado. Which is this extremely beautiful free park in Colorado Springs that is nestled right at the base of Pike's Peak. It is one of the few places that gives me a tremendous sense of peace. Garden of the Gods is where I go to walk and listen to music or run along the cement paths or scramble with friend up past the signs prohibiting our climbing. It is a place that I love and it reminds me of why I love that great state of Colorado.

This specific photo was taken by a friend of mine. Who is now serving his mission in California. He took this great photo of me. In my mind I was thinking about eating the sun/sky. I know that does not make a whole lot of sense, but one of my favorite lines in the movie "It is a Wonderful Life" is when he offers Mary, his love, interest the moon. Now obviously he is being metaphorical, but the best part is when she asks what she will do with the moon. He tells her to swallow it. That it would shoot out her fingernails and the tips of her hair. It is I think one of the most romantic movie lines ever. It is literally an offering of a world-a planet. Anyway it got me thinking about the sun.

The sun is this giant ball of plasma that is responsible for all life on earth in some way or another. Many ancient cultures worshipped the sun. In fact human, and animals have been sacrificed to worship the sun. To keep it alive. So when I perched a top that rock on a perfect Colorado day I threw back my head to try and draw some of the power in. Here it is me swallowing the sun: