Mixing the red with the blue

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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.

Special Photo; Ulf Kirchdorfer

Author

Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.

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