Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Colours of my world.

Karma, over at Karma's When I Feel Like It blog, challenged us to create a post about our favourite colours.


What colour to pick ?  

While you're waiting for me to make up my mind, enjoy the little test below.

Don't say the words you see, but rather, as fast as you can, say aloud the colours of the words.
Ready.
Set.

GO!


I hope you found it difficult: I sure did.  I could feel my brain fighting about the difference between the word and its colour.

OK.  I'm ready to reveal my selection.


It wasn't really that hard to decide.  It was a toss up between blue and green.


Even through the long, cold, interminable winter, we still got some lovely blue skies, but largely the landscape was made up of mixed tones of beige.

Spring seems to be so late this year.
And my eyes ache to see green, wonderful green, lush, growing things.

The marvellous lime-greens of spring


.

Green, green, green.

To me, green represents the rebirth of spring.

It represents that intoxicating feeling you have on that first really warm day of spring.

Time to head back into the woods to see how the moss is coming along.


What's your favourite colour ?

23 comments:

  1. That little test was indeed difficult. I had to fight with my poor little brain, to say the color rather than the word. I love the green of the outdoors, too, for the same reasons. My grass is finally greening. I am partial to earth colours. Lovely pictures.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Okay, that test with saying the colours out loud made me laugh! It just goes to show how conditioned our minds are, and how difficult it can be to say the right colour word when the wrong colour is there.

    Your nature photos are so beautiful sybil. I wish you many lush green days ahead. Joanne :)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks Joanne. I can't wait for the lush green to erupt around us.

      Delete
  3. I participate in Luminosity cognitive exercises and one of them is remarkably similar to your little challenge. Good work out for the brain.

    I'm stuck on blue. I have always loved the color of the sky, even though I do prefer that blue to be cut up with big fluffy clouds. I loved blue as a child and even after 34 years of having to wear blue to work every day, I still love blue.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. It sure is a good brain challenge. I wondered about Luminosity ... do you feel it helps ?

      Blue is a wonderful colour ! Blue sky. Blue ocean.

      Delete
  4. Oh look at that lime green mossy beautiful world you've found! I love your pictures. All of them. As for the color test...I was a bad girl...and skimmed right by the picture and didn't even pay attention. Had to go back later and see. *grin*

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. ... and ... how did you do, Gerry ?

      Delete
    2. Sybil! It's me, Kathy, upwoods. It's not Gerry. You know, me of the ROYGBIV declaration.

      Delete
    3. OMG I am losing it. So sorry my darling.

      Delete
  5. Green is a wonderful choice! You are right, we do so long to see this color and be surrounded by it when winter finally releases its icy grips. The last week of April and the first week of May are when I notice the green really starting to "pop" - lawns and leaves and all. Lovely choices for showing spring beginning anew, Sybil, and thanks for playing along!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I was out in the woods today for the first time since winter and was almost intoxicated by the lush greens of the mosses and the evergreens. Trees not leafed out yet.

      Delete
  6. I failed the test - harumph - and I thought I was so good with words! I love blues and greens, too. Very beautiful pictures of the ferns and the moss.

    Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose
    Won’t you let me go down in my dreams?

    ~ James Taylor
    (Sweet Baby James)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks Barbara.

      My poor brain had such an awful fight between seeing the colours and saying the names of the words.

      Delete
  7. Your test was not exactly easy, Sybil ;) but your pictures... gorgeous ! My favourite colour is green too, so it was a real pleasure to walk through your forests. Love your choice of pictures.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I agree about the test. Just glad I wasn't the only one who found it hard.

      Let's do this walk again soon.

      Delete
  8. Green is always the perfect choice. It's so calming and lush! Beautiful photos to welcome in spring. :-)

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks for popping by all the way from Oman.

      Spring is such a wonderful time here in Nova Scotia after the long winter.

      Delete
  9. I had to do the test twice - failed the first time. And good golly it was hard.
    I love the picture of the green moss at your feet. Perhaps because I live in a place where its green year round I love seeing the splashes of color when I go on my walks but having lived in a cold part of the world where everything's brown for so long I can understand why you'd chose "green".

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Oh Rosie, and it's been such a late spring this year. Can you imagine how we yearn for those first warm, green days of spring ?

      Delete
  10. Sybil, if you're not secretly dating the Green Man already, you should be.

    Those images are so refreshingly green. I love the fork in the road and that one through the lens so delicately discloses your intimate relationship with living things.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. That forked road is on McNabs Island. We should go there.

      Who is the "Green Man" ?

      Delete

Thanks for stopping by. I really do love to read your comments.