'Beige! Just my color.'

The color du jour for True Colours Thursday is the ever present, ever lonely color b-e-i-g-e and at first I was ready to give up before even started this post. Like our fearless host of TCT, I'm asking, 'when is cream, tan, off white, etc. beige?' So, being the Queen of waffling**, I get to pick what looks like beige to me. . .hmm, waffles. . .yum!

I think I have covered all the angles--animal, vegetable & mineral as well as dubious cat traits. Hopefully your eye will catch a bit of beige lurking in each shot.

[title quote attributed to Elsie DeWolfe]

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this one is mine

The color that makes me happiest in the world is that perfect combo of blue and green that becomes turquoise -- today's color chosen for True Colours Thursday-- so I am happy indeed!

My love affair with this hue developed about the time I graduated from chunky lead pencils and printing to cursive [Palmer Method--remember that?] and ink pens. I'm dating myself here: my inexpensive pen of choice in those early days was a Lindy ballpoint in the color Peacock Blue. Later came a more, umm, refined aesthetic sense and the lure of bottled ink in the same color using a fountain pen. Imagine my delight at the invention of cartridges in the same color. After all, this was the 20th Century and if we could put a man on the moon, Schaeffer could devise a cleaner, more plastic form of ink flow. Smitten I was with that color until the days of clicking your Bic and the more streamlined options of blue, black and red which seemed like fallout from the Cold War we were engaged in.

Fast forward to the present and my eye is consistently drawn to some shade of turquoise shown in the collage of everyday artifacts of my world. At Christmastime when I was rummaging through all those decorations I found one small box that rattled when I shook it. Inside was dear old Pashka-dog's collar and matching leash in all their worn turquoise glory.

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ABC Wednesday and lavender fields forever.

Mrs Nesbitt's Meme ABC Wednesday has arrived at the letter 'L" for today and all I could imagine from all the 'L' words was lavender...that delightful herb, color, fragrance in all its many forms. Soft on the senses. Sweet reminder of spring.

Half purple/half lavender iris and the crayon box lavender of wild phlox in a ditch next to the railroad tracks last summer.

and my ever present eggplant with a colorway from deep purple to nearly white all on one fruit.
Since lavender resembles wild imaginings to me, this front porch I saw on one of my walks drew my eyes straight into the little nook, the comely lavender canvas chair and the hydrangea in its lavender stage before turning blue. I wanted to call this home. . .

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