A light that shines through

I had to drive up to Maryland this past weekend. On the drive back I was riding in the right side back seat, where the sun was pelting down on me. It was impossible to read because the sun made the pages of my book so bright that even sunglasses couldn't help me see through the blinding light. I was getting rather annoyed, not only was I hot, but I was forced to be unproductive and hot. Resigned, I took out my ipod and wrapped a thin striped scarf around my head like a shawl, and relaxed.

Ignoring the sniggers from my little sister at my strange shield, I began to look at the world inside the scarf. Said scarf is thin enough where you can still see through it, so naturally the sun seeped through as well. It was interesting to see how the effect of see-through-scarf plus direct sunlight changed the world into a glowing place with a blue hue (because the scarf is mainly blue). Inside the scarf my skin had a pleasant healthy glow. The sun illuminated the tiny fibers of the scarf and if I focused hard enough I could see each individual woven square of the fabric. It was all rather pretty.