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Warm in the sun, not quite the hot of summer but still nicer to be under the shade of the now mostly leafed trees. I heard her before I saw her, a beautiful pileated woodpecker. A flash of red among the young green ground cover. A surprise on the ground like that. I stood aContinue reading “On the verge of summer”

From as early as the fourteenth century BCE, purple was only for the rich and powerful. (Read all about it and more in “The World According to Color” by Dr. James Fox – excellent book! Recommend it.) Nowadays we take it for granted, as we often do for many other colours. Like many painters, itsContinue reading “Royal Purple”