Mixing the red with the blue
Special Photo; Ulf Kirchdorfer
By Ulf Kirchdorfer
Special to The Albany Herald
ALBANY — They were out in full force today — the Blue Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings, among others, blue, beautiful birds. And then came the horse flies and mosquitoes mingled with human blood, reminding me of learning in school a long, long time ago that our blood is blue when it courses through our veins until we see it as red when it surfaces on our skin.
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