Color Me Pink

 

I am lately obsessed with color –  bright brilliant color. 

Shopping for something new this afternoon, I bypassed shades of gray, maroon, brown,

and leaned to yellows, oranges and pinks.

I linger over technicolor versions of life in magazines brashly, brazenly heralding Spring.

The marketeers know we are mostly fed up in this part of the world with winter blahs,

and they plot to capitalize on our yearnings for color like the color of the sky at dusk.

The Virginia sky at dusk is sometimes the color of Spring!

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The Colors of Winter

Daily Prompt:  Colors

Write about anything you’d like, but make sure that all seven colors of the rainbow – red, orange yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet – make an appearance in the post, either through word or image.

You might think the color of winter is gray

but look beyond the forlorn landscape,

at twigs and slash left over from another day.

There are the pines and bushes still ever green,

the sky a mix of blue and tinged in shades of red

And the colors of the rainbow can be seen

in orange tinted clouds floating overhead.

Have you missed the midnight sky of indigo

or violet shadows strewn among dried leaves?

The colors of winter are nature’s tireless show

to bring us summer memories.

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Shades of Color from Dark to Bright

Weekly Photo Challenge:  The Hue of You

For this challenge, we want to keep it simple: share a photograph with a prominent color (or assortment of colors) that reveals more about you. It could be a symbolic, meaningful shade; a color that expresses how you currently feel; or a combination of colors that excites you and tells a visual story.

There is my dark side and there is my bright side

and here in my valley they seem to reside

next to each other –

together.

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