Days and sometimes weeks before February starts each year we start seeing the month’s colors of love popping up everywhere. Shades of pink and red replace otherwise plain packing and store signage as we all gear up for Valentine’s Day. Yet the love festival is more than two dimensional in terms of color. The giving [...] Read more »
Color of the Year: Honeysuckle in Fashion 2011
The past decade has been dominated by the color blue. Of course when you’re a color fanatic, blue is not just blue. According to color experts Pantone, shades of blue have shown up as the biggest color of the year several times in the noughties. Variations moved from aqua sky, to blue iris, to turquoise, [...] Read more »
Color Your Garden: RED
This past week I have spent a lot of time puttering about my yard. Picking, pruning, weeding- transplanting, seeding- it’s a real scene happening outside my backdoor. My fingernails are as dirty as my ripped rubber garden boots, my spirit is shaping up as well. I am a “Sybil” (i.e.one of multi-personalities) when it comes [...] Read more »
Raving about these roses
I was driving through a neighborhood in Georgetown last weekend when the sight of these roses caused me to come to a complete stop in the middle of the road…luckily no one was tailgating or it would have been ugly. I quickly came back to my senses and found a place to park so I [...] Read more »
