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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola: Blue Violet

The Blue Violet Flowers

A Beautiful Garden in West Hoathly, UK

I do not know what these flowers are. I think they are primroses. They were a beautiful iridescent Blue Violet! It was just one of thousands of beautiful plants that I saw in the English gardens on my English Garden Tour 2015!

Just to let you know, I’ve been thinking of what I would do with the lottery money that now is up to over 1 billion. One of the things I would do is purchase a garden and lovely little cottage in the UK and hang out with gardening friends that know all the latin names of flowers. Perhaps they would have a class on such at the local Woman’s Institute meeting, for transplants like me, who would like to be in the know. I can only dream! Well, maybe I could start on one flower. If the flower shown is a primrose, it is called primula vulgaris. How could anything so beautiful be vulgar?

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Blue Green

Snazzy Car in the Cotswolds, UK

It’s the snazziest iridescent Blue Green car in the Cotswolds! What more do I need to say? Ok, the word snazzy was first used in 1932.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Blue Bell

Blue Bell Ice Cream

Texas Bluebells in the Hill Country of Texas

Blue Bell Crayola Color

Blue Bell is a recent addition to the line of Crayola colors, only being added in 1998.

I want to think it was named after Blue Bell Ice Cream.

If you have lived in the South, you know there is only one ice cream for southerners, Blue Bell.

The Brenham Creamery Company was founded around the time of the Crayola startup, 1907, in Brenham, Texas. It opened originally to purchase excess cream from local dairy farmers and sell butter to the good folks of Brenham. In 1911, the creamery began to produce small quantities of ice cream. In 1930, Brenham Creamery Company was renamed Blue Bell Creameries after the Texas Bluebell, a wildflower native to Texas, and which like ice cream, thrives during the summer. They claimed, “the milk we use is so fresh it was only grass yesterday.” As of 2015 Blue Bell is the fourth highest selling ice cream brand in the US. I could eat Bluebell Ice Cream for 120 days! To see some of the top flavors of Blue Bell Ice Cream look here!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola: Black and Blue

The Crucifixion of Christ, on a Vineyard Hill in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy

Today, I thought I would combine the Crayola colors Black and Blue. They are often combined aren’t they?

Blue has made the rounds in the Crayola collection. From 1903-1958 it was known as Blue. The same color was called Celestial Blue from 1935-1949 and from 1949-1958 it was called Azure Blue! I would like to have the job of naming colors at Crayola. I would say it is a steady job, wouldn’t you?

My black and blue photos are of the Crucufixion scene that is on the vineyard hillside in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy. It was stunning especially at night. We were there in June and July. They must leave it up year round since the terrible floods that nearly washed away their village in 2011. The Black and the Blue. Here is a personal account of what happened that day. Today, Vernazza is as beautiful as ever! The five villages of Cinque Terre are unforgettable!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Bittersweet

Manarola, Cinque Terre, Italy

Monterosso al Mare, Cinque Terre, Italy

Corpus Domini Festival, Orvieto, Italy

Bittersweet Vine

Bittersweet

The Bittersweet color was added to the Crayola line-up in 1958. I was surprised to learn that the name was not used in the English language as a color until 1892.

We used to scour the hedgerows in the fall looking for bittersweet to make a lovely fall wreath. It brings back wonderful memories of Autumn in the Midwest! I love this color!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Beaver

The Cottage in St James Park, London

A Photo of the Photo of Windsor Castle

Crayola Beaver

Beaver was introduced into the Crayola color line in 1998.

It is the color of the fur of a beaver. The first recorded use of beaver as a color name in English was in 1705.

To me, Beaver, represents multiple shades of brown! I waited ~~FOREVER~~ patiently to get a shot of that stork on the cottage! I also loved the many brown shades in the photo of the photo of Windsor Castle!

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Banana Mania

Birthday Celebration!

Crayola Banana Mania

Banana Mania was introduced to the Crayola collection in 1998.

Did you know that Crayola at one time offered Magic Scents Crayons?

In 1994, Crayola produced a 16-pack of crayons that released fragrances when used. By 1995, Crayola had to change some of the scents because of complaints from parents that some of the crayons smelled good enough to eat; like the Cherry, Chocolate, and Blueberry scented crayons. Eventually, crayons with food scents were retired in favor of non-food scents!

This photo was taken at my birthday week celebration at the Inn at Little Washington. It’s my birthday week! Not day, but week! The older one gets, the more one celebrates! Fabulous!

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Color Your World:120 Days of Crayola; Atomic Tangerine

The Canals of Venice, Italy

The Doge’s Palace, Venice, Italy

Buildings Along the Main Canal, Venice, Italy

The BEST PIZZA EVER!

Crayola Atomic Tangerine

Ultra Yellow was added to the Crayola colors in 1972. It was one of eight crayons in the new fluorescent color line. In 1990 all the fluorescent colors were re-named and Ultra Yellow became Atomic Tangerine.

Atomic Tangerine is supposed to be a fluorescent color, but there is no way to show fluorescence on a flat computer screen.

I think Venice, Italy is the most romantic city in the world.! If you want to be surrounded by beautiful color at every turn, Venice, Italy is the place for you! I fell in love with the atomic tangerine color found on every building, niche, and cranny! It can even be seen in their popular PIZZA! To see other posts about visiting Venice, just click HERE.

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I Phriday Photo Challenge; The Scaly Bark Birch Tree

Scaly Bark Birch Tree

Painted in Waterlogue

Painted in Brushstroke

Out and about this week I took a photo of the Scaly Bark Birch Tree or the Betula Nigra River Birch. It is my favorite tree! It’s not too scaly in winter, but I will update it as the weather warms up! It peels like paper and looks so cool! Look HERE to see other trees that have lovely bark to enhance your garden! I used the IPhone Apps, Waterlogue and Brushstroke, to add the other two images! They would make lovely notecards, don’t you think? Enjoy the IPhriday Photo Challenge! Post a photo taken with your Phone on Fridays!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Asparagus

My Vegetable Garden

Fruits of My Labor

Asparagus is a tone of green that is named after the vegetable. Crayola created this color in 1993 as one of the 16 to be named in the Name the Color Contest.

Another name for this color is asparagus green. The first recorded use of “asparagus green” as a color name in English was in 1805.

It is also the color of a wild asparagus plant blowing in the wind of the 1949 classic film Sands of Iwo Jima.

My “Woodland Garden” is a postage-stamp sized back yard, that is fenced off from a forest of trees. My “Cottage Garden” is a strip of ground resembling the seal of an envelope. Long and very narrow. So my “garden” is a postage stamp and envelope!

One year, I decided to broaden my horizons and invest in an allotment that our neighborhood church provided. I rented my spot and set off. Mind you I didn’t know a thing about growing vegetables. I planted a lot of lettuce. Many varieties of lettuce, all planted at the same time. They came up very nicely. So did the onions, peppers, and herbs. The plants looked so beautiful, and every day I would hike up the hill to the church and cut my lettuce. And cut lettuce. And cut lettuce. The pictures represent the fruit of my labor.

I did not grow asparagus, but surely one of these nice greens should be the color of asparagus?

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola: Blue Violet

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Blue Green

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Blue Bell

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola: Black and Blue

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Bittersweet

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Color Your World:120 Days of Crayola; Atomic Tangerine

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