Lavender & Blue

Monday Musings

"The great 19th-century writer and critic John Ruskin said, "Color is the most sacred element in all visual things." Designers agree that color is most vital and expressive of the elements of design.

Perhaps he's right..this painting is by (J.W.Waterhouse) and is just powerful to me..

Of all the forms of non-verbal communication, color is the most instantaneous method of revealing messages and meanings. Color stimulates and works synergistically with all of the senses, symbolizes abstract concepts and thoughts, express fantasy or wish fulfillment, recalls another time or place and produces an aesthetic or emotional response." Would you agree?

Kitten yawning in the tub (nice and cool)

Jacaranda below

Lavender's blue,

Lavender's green

When you are king,

I shall be queen

Who told you so,

Who told you so?

'Twas my own heart,
That told me so
dilly dilly
(old nursery rhyme & song)

We stayed at this charming Inn, in the town of Waimea..

a cozy B&B years ago but only have video footage.

The link gives you an idea of the rooms but the view from the back is a Country setting. I can remember cattle grazing in the distance and clouds swiftly moving above rolling hills.. even a few kitty cats lounging around the neatly manicured premises. 

View of the front

(Jacaranda tree by Erika Morrison) 

I have a Jacaranda that really shot up but still waiting for it to bloom-
Anybody have any idea when they begin to blossom? They might be more suited to colder weather like this little town-

Giant Crape Myrtle

Has come and gone

Left its blossoms

In the Fall

 

I planted about thirteen of them and this gives us the best show-