Meri's Musings

1. Reflections 2. Bunches of flowers in pails at the grocery store. 3. A glimpse of a rainbow (especially double ones). 4. The hustle and bustle of Pike Place Market early Saturday morning. 5. A well-dressed window display. 6.  Old layered posters and handbills, peeling and fading, and making their own shabby art. 7. Star magnolias, showing off their dainty blossoms.

magnolia blossoms against a celadon pot swallows herald spring

What's your favorite color? I go back and forth, but today, a day of misty grays and spring greens, my favorite color is pink. The delicate pink of the unfurling magnolia blossoms, the more intense hue of its tight buds. The in-your-face "notice me pink" of the flower stand along a country road. The sweetly old-fashioned pink in paper ephemera and vintage wanna-be. The baby-girl pink of little heart-shaped soaps, smelling sweetly of carnations or tearoses The mottled pinks and peachy-pinks of tulips, opening up and showing their blushing cheeks to the sun. The sunset and sunrise pinks that dance with the boundless blue sky, so purely painted by the Divine Artist that the colors can't quite be replicated by mortal artists, no matter how talented. I'm in the pink today. What color paints itself into your soul? p.s. Welcome to my new followers Michelle W and Delorse ! Thanks for joining in the fun. Click on the ...