Coat of Many Colors

January 20, 2020 is was 23 degree:

FREEZING, but never snowed, only sunshine.

When there is not a sunrise to see we

decided to take photos of my friend

and the dam with the mountains in the background.

When looking at this photo you see joy

from a snow day but had no idea that

we would be out of school in two months

because of COVID-19. Do you see the excitement

in her eyes from the unknown?

As an unknown the mountains in the background

shows that there is more to a photo than

just the person or object that is the focus.

Unless it is a product to be sold.

When looking through the eyes of

bright luminous colors in the world

I will see what the water, trees, grass, blankets,

shirt, and anything that is a color. What

stands out to you before you see someone’s

face? Do you see their face or their clothes?

When I see people I see their face unless their

clothes are neon colored. How is that when looking

at my best friend in this picture,

the first item in the photo is

the bright colored blanket that she got from Guatemala.

The place that the photo was taken was at Cherokee

dam in Jefferson City, TN.

The day the photo was taken we

were there to watch the sunrise

but it was cloudy until it was time to

leave.

Latter in the day we when on a

quest to find prom dresses. I

drove all over the county to find

us both a dress but neither of

us found one that we bought,

I found one at the first place but

it needed sleeves, so I didn’t get

it. That day I used little over a tank

of gas to drive us to all the places

that I could think of.

A month or so later my bestfriend

texts me and tells me she found a

dress, she will show me on Monday

when we are at school. It is almost the

same color as the one that I wanted to

get but mine was way darker. But what

we didn’t know that we would not be

having a prom this year because of COVID

we were lucky that we even got a graduation

(which was awesome).

How is it that when you look back just a few

months you remember what you were planning

to do on prom day, then what you would be wearing

how you would be getting there, who you were going

with? I wanted to start planning what that we

would be doing in January but she kept saying

lets let it get closer before we start planning.

I said “ok” and went on with what was going

on in the world around us.

Economics was the class that had just started for

second semester. Hard is an understatement of a

word to use. Trying to understand something that

is in everyday life, that should come naturally,

was not. We were having more and more projects

that were getting more and more hours of work

being put into it just to get a decent grade. On top

of the fact that we did weekly work, discussion,

quiz that was no more than ten questions. One day

our teacher was not there and we worked on school

work for the first thirty minutes of class then someone

got up and started playing pictionary. One person

started to draw me and I saw it quickly, so I said it

and got to have a turn. I draw the Louvre in France

because I went there for fall break.