Hie thee to the kitchen for the soup won’t make itself
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Be refreshed by the entries in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Green
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Be refreshed by the entries in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: The Color Green
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Take your pick from a rainbow of entries in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: All One Color.
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Sit yourself down and peruse the entries at
Where’s my backpack?’s challenge Travel Theme: Benches.
Spring into some lush entries at Where’s my backpack?’s challenge
Travel Theme: Green.
Read more about everything emerald at Pantone‘s Colour of the Year for 2013.
Explore the hothouse of entries at A Word in your Ear’s
Word A Week Photo Challenge – Garden.
It’s not easy being green – ask any 54 year old frog. This Friday, the Weekly Photo Challenge: Green asks us to love our lime – and emerald, chartreuse, pine, pea and kelly! Have a look there for all the hues and shades of the 21st century’s favourite colour…
Hydrangeas used to be in that class of flowers grown in grandmother’s gardens – not any more! With a head over a foot in diameter, this variety is the perfect candidate for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: A Single Flower. More than four species of this bushy plant and enough shades to rival a watercolourist’s palette give gardeners a wide range to choose from. They can be temperamental, the colour deepening or fading with the ph balance of the soil they are in. Having a less than green thumb, I buy them, plant them and hope that they will reappear the next year…
It is a common occurrence in our house that searching for one thing leads to something completely different. It was on a such a mission, in the quest for material for a current project, that a long-forgotten archive popped up and presented exactly the right pic for Cee’s Foto Fun Challenge: Contrasting Colours. Taken in the garden quite some time ago, numerous photos of glorious blooms brought to mind the nagging question “Where did they go?” Not as in, all those lovely flowers are dead and where did they go, but rather that many of those very same perennials have not been seen in those specific locations in at least the last two years. Is it us who have been too busy to notice, otherwise occupied in trying to lay ground cover, removing tenacious weeds or concentrating on beautifying other areas of the garden? Did they flower at the exact moment we were on vacation? It is a mystery – one that will not be solved until spring rolls around next year when we wait for those blossoms to peak out from the damp earth. Or, as is more likely the case, we will forget and rediscover our photos next fall…