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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Razzle Dazzle Rose

Razzle Dazzle de Rose

Razzle Dazzle de Rose

 

For my photo choice I’ve given Razzle Dazzle more flair by giving the roses a french touch, naming it Razzle Dazzle de Rose. These were more of the beautiful flowers seen on my English Garden Tour, 2015.  Did I tell you I received the book, Gardens to Visit 2016, from the National Garden Scheme? I am in the throws of planning my visit this summer to gardens in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex and Kent, oh my!

Razzle Dazzle Rose is the fluorescent color originally known as Hot Magenta from 1972 to 1990. In the “Discovery Series” it was known as Blast Off.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

 

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Raw Sienna

Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

Raw Sienna is a yellowy-brown color. So I thought I’d share with you how I like to bake bread! Any bread! Lately my favorite is Golden Grains Bread, a bread Recipe from King Arthur Flour. But, this week there was also, Irish Soda Bread and Irish Soda Bread Muffins, also from King Arthur Flour. There is nothing better than the smell of baking bread. There is nothing better to eat, than fresh bread from the oven. Give us this day our daily bread! Amen.

I wrote a previous post all about King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vermont. I love their products so much I had to make a visit to them! What a great Bakery facility they have there!

Raw Sienna was part of the Crayola Collection from 1903 until 1910. It was re-introduced in 1958. In the “State Crayon Collection,” it is known as Nutmeg and is the color for Connecticut.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Purple Pizzazz

 

Beautiful Purple Pizzazz in the UK Cottage Garden

Beautiful Purple Pizzazz in the UK Cottage Garden

 

A Spot of Purple Pizzazz

A Spot of Purple Pizzazz

In Europe Crayola calls Purple Pizzazz, Powerful Purple. In the US Purple Pizzazz is a fluorescent color which was introduced to the line in 1990.

In the cottage gardens of the UK you will find some Powerful Purples clustered together to make a beautiful Purple Pizzazz spot in the garden!

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

 

 

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Purple Mountain Majesty

Purple Mountain Majesty

Purple Mountain Majesty

 

Closer Look at Purple Mountain Majesty

Closer Look at Purple Mountain Majesty

 

Ready, Get Set!

Ready, Get Set!

Some of us like to look at Purple Mountain Majesty from afar and some of us are never settled until they can get a good close up, personal look see! Such is the case when SB and I were in Chamonix, France, a resort area near the junction of France, Switzerland, and Italy. I was content to stay in the chalet cottage and indulge in the spa treatments and look at the mountain, while SB was twitching to get up on Mont Blanc. Then he decided he would also paraglide down, just for fun.

“Did I want to go up?” he asked.

“No, I will watch you from right here, at the chalet,” my reply. “I’ll watch for you and take pictures.”

Jump!!!

Jump!!!

Moral to the story: Some People Fly High and Some People are Fully Rooted to the Ground and

My Spot

My Spot!

OPPOSITES ATTRACT!

 

Purple Mountain Majesty, also spelled Purple Mountains’ Majesty and Purple Mountain’s Majesty has been in the Crayola Collection since 1993. It is also known as Pencilvania Purple in the special “Colors of Binney & Smith.

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Color Your World: 120 Days of Color; Plum

A Plum Tree

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!

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 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!

 

Greater Flaming

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!

Lesser Flamingo

The Lesser Flamingo

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

Chilean Flamingo

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

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

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, Acton Burnell, Shropeshire, UK

 

Acton Burnell Castle, Shropshire, UK

Acton Burnell Castle, Shropshire, UK

 

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

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

 

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

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

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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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Periwinkle

 

Periwinkle Flowers

Periwinkle Flowers

 

Periwinkle Foxgloves

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

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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