04.13.09

Late, late Indigo

Posted in Design Theory at 7:06 am by deRomilly

Note: Getting Things Done is taking longer than I expected it to, due to some bad planning on my part, taxes, and family emergencies.  I AM still making progress, though, albeit slowly. I’m going to try to come back to one post a week because I don’t want to completely disappear from all your radars!

Indigo:

I’ll admit it. I failed horribly. And I’ve had more than a week to find it.

Indigo is a color I love – a deep blue with a hint of purple in it. It is also not a color you see often, at least in the form I expect it. My midnight blue hipscarf comes close — in fact, it’s the color the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls (IORG) used when I was a member – it annoyed me then, too – there’s no purple in it. Hence, to me, it’s blue.

My irises have indigo in them as I remember — they haven’t bloomed yet. I did not think I would fail to find a color I love so much. I was wrong.

Has anyone else found anything they’d call indigo? If so, I’d love to see it! Post a link in the comments and I’ll find time to come look. I promise on that one. I LOVE indigo!

Next, Purple, violet, whatever you want to call it! And I’m still on the lookout for indigo.

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03.15.09

Blue…

Posted in Design Theory at 8:38 pm by deRomilly

Blue is one of those strange colors… Where does it end and indigo begin? In Rainbow, blue was always light, and indigo dark, but it’s more than that. Indigo should have a more violet hue. But we’ll get to indigo.

This week, it’s blue. Which is almost unfair, since so much in my world is blue. When the EO and I got together, we both a bit surprised to find that we also shared a love of blue and silver.

So anyway. Blue things. I wanted to include a photo of the Carolina sky, but the day I went to take the photo the clouds rolled in, and it looked like Seattle!!!

Next week… Indigo… blue or not?

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03.09.09

It’s Green…

Posted in Design Theory at 5:37 pm by deRomilly

I almost feel guilty with this week’s photos. You see, the color was green, and it’s spring here in NC, so as soon as the snow melted last week we were back down to daffodils, blooming forsythia and every shade of green imaginable. No. You don’t understand. I’m from the Pacific Northwest I THOUGHT I knew what green was. Everything’s sort of a blue-ish green. Blue spruce, blue-green Puget Sound, dark green fir and hemlock, dark green oregon grape… green (if it wasn’t grey!).

Then I moved out here.  In the spring. Which supposedly starts in February when the first crocuses and daffodils bloom. And peonies. Well, you saw what happened to my peonies this year.  The daffodils met a similar fate, although they are tired and still pushing along.

So. Green. Every shade imaginable.  On my way home from work today I passed a grove where I swear there are at least 30 different shades of green in a 10 by 10 foot patch. Many of the yellow-greens that for a long time I believed lived only in my Crayola box, and not in nature.

And just because I intended these to go in the yellow post and was thwarted by snow from taking them…

So on to the pretties! As usual, you can click to make bigger.

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03.02.09

Yellow

Posted in Design Theory at 7:00 am by deRomilly

Yellow was supposed to be easy.  The daffodils bloomed last week.  We had 70 degree weather! Um… yeah. and I got stuck behind a desk while the sun was out.

So. Three photos.  All of bananas. Well, one banana.  Tonight it’s supposed to snow. So there may be photos of daffodils in snow later, like the peonies.

The entire banana. Quite a pretty shade of yellow. Delicious, too.

The END of the banana is just plain interesting. It LOOKS like it’s been burnt where it’s cut off the tree.

I LOVE the details when you look at it up close.

And this weekend there were lovely yellow costumes on a couple of the dancers. I’ll provide links when my favorite photographer puts her photos up.

Next week… green!

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02.21.09

Orange

Posted in Design Theory at 9:39 pm by deRomilly

I was right. Orange is difficult to find in spring in a way that *I* consider pretty.

There are a lot of construction flags. I was trying to avoid actually taking pictures of oranges or carrots. I didn’t manage it.  But here we go:

The orange sweatshirt on the construction guy with all the orange traffic cones in his truck:

First I felt the need to cheat and use the doodle I did on an orange scratch pad at work:

I resorted to photographing the ads:

I found the orange lid of the glue at the office:

Then I noticed that the book I’m knitting from has a great deal of orange in it:

And I finally resorted to food: oranges, and then noticed the baker’s chocolate in the baking cupboard of things I can no longer eat:

And I took a close up of the bag for the oranges because as well as being a beautiful deep orange, the texture was just so cool!

So. Did YOU find anything neat and orange this week? Trackback or post a comment so I can see, too!

Edited to add: Next week… Yellow!

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