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Color Your World: 120 Days of Color; Plum

A Plum Tree

Last week on Friday, for the IPhone Priday Photo Challenge, I posted a picture of my Plum tree. Some people do not have a Plum tree, but they would like one! I found this Plum Tree in New Orleans! Or maybe it is a Plum Flower? In New Orleans they like to make everything special, don’t you think?

Plum, is an oldie in the Crayola Collection. It was introduced in 1958.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Pink Sherbet

My Pink Sherbet Shoes!

These are my Pink Sherbet Shoes! I bought them in Orvieto, Italy, because I liked their snazzy color with the light pink suede toe ! I like happy feet! My mother always said I was easy to buy shoes for. Just pick the ugliest shoes in the store and those would be the ones I wanted! I can’t help it that I like unusual shoes!

Crayola changed the name Brink Pink to Pink Sherbet in 2005. I am glad because I didn’t know what color a Brink Pink was. Looking it up, I see it is the color between rose and magenta, formulated by Crayola in 1998. Then I looked at the word sherbet. I always pronounced the word sherbert. Had I been pronouncing the word incorrectly all these years? No. It seems sherbet and sherbert are interchangeable too! So there we have it!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Flamingo Pink

The American Flamingo

The Crayola color, Flamingo Pink, is a teaser to be sure! The Crayola Color looks neon and almost gaudy! When I looked up the colors of the Flamingo Pink bird there were ranges from the deepest orange to the lightest pink! The color depends on which species you are looking at! Be sure to look at their different bills too!

The American Flamingo is a large species and is the only flamingo that naturally inhabits North America. This could be Flamingo Pink!

The Greater Flamingo

The Greater Flaming is rose colored. It is the most common species of the flamingo family and is found in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. This could be Flamingo Pink!

The Lesser Flamingo

The Lesser Flamingo is a species found in Sub-Saharan Africa and India. This could be Flamingo Pink!

The Chilean Flamingo

The Chilean Flamingo is a large species closely related to the American Flamingo and Greater Flamingo. It breeds in South America and has been introduced into Germany and the Netherlands. I LOVE the little pink knees! Like all flamingos it lays a single chalky white egg on a mud mound. This could be Flamingo Pink!

The James Flamingo

The James Flamingo populates in the high altitudes of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. They have bright yellow bills! So this could be Flamingo Pink!

The Andean Flamingo

The Andean Flamingo is one of the rarest flamingos in the world. It lives in the Andes Mountains of South America. This flamingo has a pale, pink body with brighter, upper parts and a deep pink, lower neck and breast. It is the only flamingo species with yellow legs and three-toed feet!

So here we are with all the colors of Flamingo Pink! What Flamingo Pink do you like best?

Flamingo Pink was also an alternate color for Carnation Pink in the second “So Big” crayola set. What? Do we start all over with the carnations? Crayola just can’t leave well enough alone it seems!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Pine Green

Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

Acton Burnell Castle, Shropshire, UK

The Weird, Scary, Trees at Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

Acton Burnell Castle, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

The scariest forest that I have been in was at the Acton Burnell Castle in Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK. My relatives once lived there (late 1200’s) so while doing some genealogy research in the UK, I decided to check this place out. It felt so creepy walking to the ruins of this castle. We had to make our way through a forest of weird mossy green, colored trees that looked like they were sunk into the ground at branch level. No tree trunks! I felt they could reach out, pull you down and suck you under, in one long gasp! I got the feeling something terrible had happened here. One of my extra senses was on high alert! The forest trees were a mixture of the weird shaped trees and pine, but when we got to the ruins itself, only the very tall pines were left.

My relative, Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells, was allowed to build a fortified manor house here because he had been a confidant and advisor, for more than thirty years, to King Edward I. One of the first Parliaments between the Commoners and the Lords was held here in the Autumn of 1283 and the Law of Acton Burnell was passed at that time. That statute provided an easier recovery of debts by merchants. It encouraged foreign trade in England. Defaulting debtors could be kept in prison on bread and water at their own expense, until debts were paid! Now that would make you look forward to the end of the month!

So here we are with a photo of Pine Green, the name given to Dark Green when Crayola added new colors to the line in 1958!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Piggy Pink

A Cottage Garden in Warninglid, UK

I looked through a good many of my pictures, but alas, no pig to be found! So no pig in a poke! Where did that phrase come from?

A poke is a sack or bag. It has a French origin as “poque” and, like several other French words, its diminutive is formed by adding “ette” or “et”—hence “pocket” meaning “small bag”. Poke is still in use in several English-speaking places, including Scotland and some regions of the USA. For example among English hop growers, a poke is a large sack into which hops are poured to be taken from the picking machine to the oast for drying. Now remember my pictures of an oast? Here is one in case you forgot. If you would like to learn more about Oasts, I wrote a post (look HERE) during my English Garden Tour!

The Oast at Bateman’s, Home of Rudyard Kipling

In the middle ages, “the pig in a poke” scheme entailed the sale of a suckling pig in a poke. The bag, sold unopened, would actually contain a cat or dog! The French idiom acheter (un) chat en poche (to buy a cat in a bag) refers to an actual sale of this nature. Translation: Don’t buy anything that you haven’t looked over carefully first! Well I looked over all my pictures carefully! No pig, but I do have a photo of a lovely English garden in Warningild with beautiful pink roses!

Pig Pink, also known as Piggy Pink, was added to the Crayola collection in 1998.

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IPhriday Photo Challenge: Plum Ready

My Plumming Plum

Painted in Waterlogue

Weather Wednesday; I have a Plum tree in my front yard and it is beginning to leaf, Plum. So I got out there and took a photo with my IPhone! I love Spring, but the weather outlook, here in the south, goes from the 50’s (Winter) to the high 70’s (Spring) overnight. There is not a gradual warming up. So, I am now Plum ready for the high 90’s (Summer) which will start at the end of the month, right after Easter, or sooner! I added a photo edited in the Waterlogue App on my IPhone for use as a Spring note card! Better get the photo since my tree thinks it is still Spring!

PS Thursday Weather Update: Today it was in the 80’s!

Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays! It is great fun getting outside to see what is going on, even if you’re burning up on March 11th! But, I’m not complaining, I’m just HOT!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Periwinkle

Periwinkle Flowers

More Periwinkle Flowers

Periwinkle has been in the Crayola line up since 1958. It is also known as Dolphin Fin in the “Discovery” series, Hetty the Blue Duck in the Hallmark “Ugly Duckling” set, and Binneywinkle in the “Special Colors of Binney and Smith”. I don’t know about you, but I may have to start paying attention to crayons again. There seems to be a lot of “series” crayolas! Thinking of Hetty the Blue Duck reminded me of Beatrix Potter and her Jemima Puddle-duck. I’d never heard of Hetty the Blue Duck. So I looked the book up and sorry Hallmark, no comparison! The Hallmark Ugly Duckling Book is really UGLY! Even the cover of the book is ugly! I’ll stick to Beatrix Potter any day! Soft, airy, wispy, watercolored, pastel drawings, with an enchanting story too, just the way I think periwinkle should be represented!

Here is the Beatrix Potter book and here is a picture of Jemima with that rascally fox!

Beatrix Potter; The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck

It’s spring and I just love reading the Beatrix Potter books and looking at her drawings of her favorite animal friends! I ‘m sure some of them would have hung out in the periwinkle-colored flowers!! These photos were taken in a cottage garden in the UK during my English Garden Tour! I am doing all the prep work for another one this summer, as I speak! I can’t wait!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Peach

A Quiet Lane in Monterosso al Mare, Italy

A Peach Colored Beach House in Monterosso al Mare, Italy

If you want to see the Peach color everywhere, in the Flesh, look no farther than Italy! I think it should be the National Color of Italy! Wondering the streets of Monterosso al Mare, in the Cinque Terre region of Italy, the buildings can be found painted in one shade or another of Peach! It is a variation of the pottery color also found in many of the villages. So it must be a pigment found in the clay of Italy.

In the Crayola Collection, Peach was the name given to Flesh in 1962, to recognize the Civil Rights movement and not only one color as Flesh. It is also known as Pimpernel Peach in the “Scarlet Pimpernel” series and Give Peach a Chance in the “Retro Colors” set. I especially like the name Give Peach a Chance, don’t you?

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Pacific Blue

From Sea to Shining Sea!

Crayola added the color Pacific Blue to their collection in 1993. It is known as Megabyte Blue in the “Techno Brite” series, Pacific Ocean in the “Discovery” series and Sea to Shining Sea in the “State Crayon Collection”.

I like the idea of Sea to Shining Sea, so here we are looking at the shining Lingurian Sea from Corniglia, Italy! Of the five villages that make up the Cinque Terre region of Italy, Corniglia was my favorite. There are not too many tourists here and only a handful spend the night, but all the charms of the village are intact; the hillside vineyards, the tiny cobbled streets with fantastic eateries, shops selling handmade gifts, and great views to photograph! Staying at a B&B here would be the ideal location to experience the real Italy! Why don’t the tourists flock here, you ask? To reach Corniglia, it is necessary to climb the Lardarina, a long brick flight of steps composed of 33 flights with 382 steps or follow a vehicular road that, from the station, leads to the village. Thank God there is also that little bus!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Outrageous Orange

Morning Market in Venice, Italy

Outrageous Orange was called Ultra Orange in the fluorescent colors of the Crayola collection.

So let’s go to the daily market at the Rialto Bridge, in Venice, Italy and look for that Orange! There are numerous shades of orange here, but I liked this photo of the fish market! We had to get up before 6 am to get photos of the market. I think we found the freshest Orange! After that time it was bumper to bumper with locals getting their fresh produce, meat and daily fish! A great place to visit and find Color!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Pine Green

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Piggy Pink

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