The colour of poppies

The colour of poppies

beauty, colour, enchantment, moments

A searching definition for the precise shade of California poppies, as recalled in Steinbeck’s East of Eden.  Not orange, you understand, but golden cream.And mixed with these were splashes of California poppies. These too are of a burning color – not...
Ode to an orange

Ode to an orange

colour, happiness, moments

Elizabeth Bowen’s mouth-watering description of eating a Sicilian orange in Rome deserves a place at the Nuannaarpoq table.  And I read it a few weeks after moving to Italy and beginning to find red, sweet oranges of a quality I’ve rarely encountered...
Hue to the orange

Hue to the orange

colour

Part of the fun of designing a website is choosing the colours.  I use colourlovers.com where people create and name their own colours or palettes – it lets you search by picking a section of the spectrum (yellow-orange for example), and providing some key...
Dance the orange

Dance the orange

colour

You may have noticed that orange is the signature colour of this website. Why orange?  Because its sensory spectrum stretches from brightness to warmth, sunrise to sunset, summer marigolds to autumn leaves to winter persimmons to the saffron gold of the spring crocus....

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