G is for Green
My favorite colors are blue and green. I adore them both. Not so much for clothes or furniture or cars, but for me, they are the cool, soothing colors of nature. Because it is so dry and brown here much of the year, green is more rare for me than blue, and so I find green more precious. We get a lot of beautiful blue sky here, and not enough green. When we go somewhere that is not California, somewhere with lots of rain, and I see how lush and calming all of that green is, I swoon.
Then again, there is that beautiful blue of the ocean and the sky that is stunning as well. Maybe my favorite color is blue.
Or maybe in reality, it can be a tie…
Pictures – I took the first 2, the third I found online years ago.
1. Monet’s Garden, in Giverney, France
2. Ho’okipa Beach, Maui
3. Mt. Diablo, here in my home town. Photo taken from Yahoo Weather, I think.
2 Comments
nance
I’m a sucker for red, always, but I do love green, as you do, in Nature. It’s calming and lush, and I feel very peaceful and serene in green places.
The cool greenery of forests, especially, I find quite soothing. In my backyard, which has no grass, just landscaping and a pond with a waterfall, I like to put lots of ferns. They especially say Green to me.
This winter I’m redoing the bedroom, and I’m going to use a pale, pale, almost-not-there green on the walls. Like sea glass. Right now, the bedroom is dark and drapey and heavy. I want to lighten it up and make it more botanical. And Green.
J
Oh my, ferns and a pond and a waterfall? How charming and lovely that must be! I toy with the idea of ferns sometimes, but I’m not sure how they would do in the hot dry summer weather we get. They somehow do bring a little of the forest feel to a place, don’t they? I love it.
Your bedroom sounds lovely. If you’re so inclined, perhaps you might share before and after pictures? That seems perhaps more personal than you usually put on your blog, so I get it if you don’t. The wall color sounds perfect, though.