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Friday, June 5, 2009

Name that Colour.


















I had to stop and take a picture today. For once, I saw my blue trees in a place where I could pull over safely. Not a very romantic location for such beautiful trees, but spirit-lifting eye-candy nonetheless.
So here you are, in the parking lot of a Target chain store; A good acre of asphalt bejewelled for a few fleeting days each year by several dozen Jacarandas in flower.
The individual flowers seem blue, but the overall effect is purple. What colour do you see?

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  1. I see Purple Haze... as in :

    Purple haze all in my brain
    Lately things just dont seem the same
    Actin funny, but I dont know why
    scuse me while I kiss the sky
    Purple haze all around
    Dont know if Im comin up or down
    Am I happy or in misery?
    What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me
    :D

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  2. Pretty pictures. It is an oddly muted violet for being blue up close.

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  3. I see violet, but it is a very bluish violet. One of those Crayola crayon colors: Blue Violet or Lavender Blue? Looked up the Jacaranda and apparently it only grows in warm climates, so that explains why I have never seen one before.

    Interesting, as the close up of the blossoms look a bit like my rhododendron in shape.

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  4. Lavender Blue, maybe. Purple Haze works too, as does Mauve and Muted Violet.

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  5. gently wafting violet misted sweeties.... or something.... (or that could be because I'm still a bit tiddlee from last night....)..

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  6. Well, there is just the name for this colour in my native language and it's "wrzosowy". It comes from a plant of that colour (http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrzos)

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