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O is for Orange ©Nightjar, all rights reserved
Orange.
As displayed by a California Poppy.
O is for Orange
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O is for Orange ©Nightjar, all rights reserved
Orange.
As displayed by a California Poppy.
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M is for Maroon ©Nightjar, all rights reserved
Maroon.
A dark brownish red that gets its name from chestnuts (marron, in French). It can also be found simply in the soaked bark of maritime pines.
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Lavender.
A light purple representing the color of the flower with the same name. There were no lavender flowers anywhere to be seen when I got to the letter L in mid-November, but a trip to the village’s limestone formation revealed a nice surprise. Little lavender-colored crocus flowers (Crocus serotinus) work just as well.
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Khaki.
Telling apart tones of light brown is an exercise I find neither easy nor exciting, but the letter K doesn’t really afford many choices. I did learn that khaki is actually a RYB quinary color obtained by mixing equal parts of the quaternary colors sage and buff. Not that this piece of information helped me much, mind you. Hopefully some parts of this sheep’s portrait aren’t too far-off.
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Jasmine.
A pale tint of yellow representing the color of the yellowish lower part of the petals of some white jasmine flowers. I found it when a gentle morning sunray hit a dew-covered fruit of my Euonymus fortune shrub.
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Indigo.
A deep rich blue, inclining towards violet, and one of the seven colors of the rainbow as named by Newton. The indigo dye is one of the oldest dyes known, historically extracted from plants of the genus Indigofera, but I think I found it on the berries of a Viburnum shrub.
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Heliotrope.
A pink-purple tint that represents the color of the garden heliotrope flower. I couldn’t find the flower, but I found the tone on an African Daisy. I wish I could have shared this photo with Caine, she loved daisies and I know she would have loved that curled petal.
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Green.
Brought to you by a green shield bug on a green potato leaf.
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Fuchsia.
A vivid purplish red color associated with the flowers of fuchsia plants. Instead of an obvious fuchsia flower, I give you the empty flower stem of a pokeweed. The local birds were kind enough to remove all the berries to expose a vivid fuchsia.
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Emerald.
A light and bright shade of green with a slight bluish tint, reminiscent of the gemstone. A succulent plant from my garden was vibrant and vivid enough to remind me of it. Those petals are like little gems.
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Desert.
A deep tone of beige that resembles the color of the flat areas of the desert. Lacking a nearby desert I went to the beach and found a desert-colored seashell.
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Crimson.
A strong red with a slight bluish tint. Historically, it’s the color of the kermes dye, a red dye derived from the dried bodies of insects belonging to the genus Kermes. Kermesic acid is the pigment that gives the dye its color. I found a similar hue on a sunburnt rose.