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Green in the Fall…A Welcome Color
What do colors mean to you?
I’m a color-sensitive person. Colors play a large part in my life. I see colors as mood-makers and instigators of my creativity. I don’t follow color trends and am often onto a color before the throngs of people updating their decor with a particular tone. For example, our kitchen was painted a deep teal (Grecian Ocean) in 2007 well before the color was popular. By the time everyone was painting their walls a similar tone, I was on to something else.
When you live in a colder climate, where months of the year are brown and white, I think color becomes even more important. I’m like Frederick the Mouse, storing up colors for those bleak winter months. So, when I looked back at my recent photos, I noted an overabundance of green. It was somewhat shocking because, by August, usually the grass has burned out and become brown and brittle. But not this year. We had a wet August and hence green stayed prevalent in our landscape.
To me, the color green means things are fresh and vibrant, full of life. These mushrooms must have thought the same of this moss!
