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Frog Visit
A visit to my garden by a frog is the inspiration for Color Week 37. My frog was brownish and appears to be a pacific tree frog. [reference USFW] Seeing the Frog reminded me of my Wedgewood reproduction Queen’s ware ‘Frog’ service plate. And as luck would have it I listened to a V&A online…
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Color Week 36 Purple
Purple is generally, any color with hue between red and blue. In contemporary times purple is often associated with rarity, royalty, magic and piety. But purple has lots of history: The word actually derives from the name of Tyrian purple dye manufactured from mucus secreted by the spiny dye-murex snail. The dye came from the…
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Rose Garden
Color Week 34 centers around the colors of the Woodland Park Rose Garden, Seattle Wa. Originally established by Park Board in 1922, the Rose Garden is one of only two dozen certified American Rose Test Gardens in the United States. At its picturesque best from May through August, the garden displays new rose hybrids…
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The Colors of Plum Jam
Color week 33 features the color mixes for ‘Plum Jam’. It is jam making season and here we have 3 jams with distinct colors along with distinct [and delicious] flavors. Mixing the colors included a base jam tone and building from that base, much like making the jam itself. The grid comes from my wonderful…
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