302/365

some things I did buy at the texas fleamarket:

a couple old school flashcards 
a couple little toy playing cards
a pile of carefully selected found photographs
a small red portland pennant
a large red new orleans pennant
a few patches for ava
a few old watch parts for ezra
a small rose cameo piece 
a green plastic letter A
a little lemonette soda bottle 
a tea tin from budapest
a roll of mustard yellow floral wallpaper circa 1970
a faded poster advertising the opening of drive-in theatre in iowa circa 1950
three beautiful old photobooth frames
and one polaroid of an elderly man holding his cat

284/365

things I brought home from new orleans:

a pink fan
a stack of polaroids
the envelope that held our room key
the cork from the bottle of champagne we drank on the night of our anniversary
the little gold foil piece too
a napkin from the napoleon house
a patch I bought for ava (but will probably keep for myself)
two woven candy-colored bracelets that called my name
the paper bag that held our leftover beignets
three anniversary photobooth strips

75/365

things I collect:

found photographs
the number seven
sleepover suitcases
tiny vases
enamel pins
45 record sleeves
seashells 
souvenir pennants
sterling silver charms
cigar boxes
moments

color//colour pink

monday's pink 
was all bubblegum 
and pink flamingos
and mostly, pretend


tuesday's pink
had nothing to do 
with parking


wednesday's pink
was a love letter
to bright pink hair 
and the sweetest pink vintage dress 
and to the girl (my girl)
who wears both


thursday's pink
was a little gem of a kitchen
that I think of all the time
(all the time)


friday's pink
was the soundtrack
that gave 15 year-old andrea
hope


saturday's pink
was the last of the pink
and the last of the color//colour
but the beginning 
of the blooms
and so much
so much everything

(color//colour lovers twenty eighteen! fini)

(thank you, all you color//colour lovers out there, and thank you to my friend and terrific color-hunting partner in crime, xanthe)

color//colour green

monday's green 
was monday's inevitability



tuesday's green
was just, so much wishful thinking



wednesday's green
was miraculous seventy degree weather
and the little jolt you get
when you bring home something
green and alive



thursday's green
was like a painting



friday's green
was rain in the forecast
and new york
on my mind



saturday's green 
was the promise
of pink

next up/this week: PINK

(more color//colour lovers project info here, follow along here)

color//colour red

monday's red
was a little bit yellow
because sometimes I have trouble letting go



tuesday's red 
was basquiat's red
the best red, really



wednesday's red
was construction paper and leftover scraps
and, like it or not, love



thursday's red
had nothing to do
with thursday



friday's red
had everything to do
with friday
(happy lunar new year, friends)



saturday's red 
was a little scene
I'd like to step into
again and again

this week: GREEN

(more color//colour lovers project info here, follow along here)

color//colour yellow

monday's yellow 
was also monday's blue 
(thus, completely serendipitous)



tuesday's yellow
was totally february's wishful thinking



wednesday's yellow 
was wednesday's gold
and indiana's cold 
and the open field across the street from the motel just off the interstate 
where we stayed while we said goodbye to someone we loved



thursday's yellow
was what felt like every spine of every national geographic magazine, ever
in the world



friday's yellow
was the promise of a return to new york
and the scent of honey roasted peanuts 




saturday's yellow
was an unexpected love 
for tubing the color of sunshine

next up: R E D

(more color//colour lovers project info here)

color//colour blue

monday's blue
was found at the corner of memorial and boulevard



tuesday's blue
was found in ava's room



wednesday's blue
was a gem from nola times



thursday's blue
was a gem from mountain times




friday's blue
was friday's optimism



saturday's blue
was saturday's mood

next up: yellow yellow yellow

(project info here)

five, five and five

five colors, five weeks, in celebration of five years of color collecting our way through the infinite depths of winter. 

color//colour lovers (that yearly labor of collaborative color love between myself and the ever-ebullient xanthe) is on its fifth go round and every year I think maybe we're finished, maybe the project has run its course, but then, sometime around the middle of january, I hear the color calling. inevitably, an email lands in my box, or one in xanthe's, with a familiar subject line: fancy another color//colour lovers go round? 

and, who I am to say no? when color calls, I answer. every time. 

should you hear the color calling, should you find yourself wanting to answer, the invitation is open, always, to play along-- hunt color, wear color, eat color, shoot color, seek color, share color, share it wherever, whenever, here, there, everywhere. line-up as follows:

monday, january 29th-- blue
monday, february 5th-- yellow
monday, february 12th-- red
monday, february 19th-- green
monday, february 26th-- pink

(find us here, there, everywhere-- blogs, instagrams, tumblr, yada yada yada-- and before you know it, we'll be swimming in color, all of us)

collected

26th street fleamarket// new york city// may 2016

rose festival city fair photobooths// portland, oregon// june 2009

junk shop// decatur street// new orleans// september 2014

my bathroom mirror// portland, oregon// 11/11/11

madrona motor court inn// avenue of the giants highway 101// phillipsville, california// june 2014

bollywood theater// portland, oregon// october 2015

16 to savannah, georgia//september 2017

oregon state line// cross country move// march 2007

howard finster's paradise garden// summerville, georgia// march 2015

wigwam village motel// cave city, kentucky// august 2010

wigwam village motel// cave city, kentucky// june 2017

rasmussen farm// hood river, oregon// october 2009

flutter// mississippi street// portland, oregon// january 2010

99-W drive-in concession stand// newberg, oregon// september 2013

amy's bathroom mirror// portland, oregon// september 2010

victoria's bathroom mirror// san francisco// october 2010

26th street fleamarket// new york city// may 2016

union station// portland, oregon// january 2011

lakewood fleamarket// atlanta, georgia// september 2005