I've often been perplexed by the use of the word blue in reference to the coloration of blue heeler dogs and other animals. Consider blue roan, for example. A color of horse. But after taking this photograph of Lila, our blue heeler puppy, it's all clear to me now!

And as I looked out the windows of my house this frigid winter morning onto miles and miles of rolling hills and mountains covered in snow, with the thin early morning sun just creeping over the horizon, the whole landscape, even the piñon, the pine, and the juniper are drenched in it.