I’ve never committed to memory anything about the color wheel. Anytime I need to work with colors, I have to rely on resources kept by my side. The relationships of colors just doesn’t come naturally to me. But I realized recently, it does come to me through nature.
Joe-Pye-Weed
Through the summer, I’ve been working on the design of a website for a client. With August’s arrival, I’ve shot several pictures that I consider to be a good representation of the colors of this time in the summer season. My thought was to post them as ‘The August Mix’. While contemplating this presentation, I realized that the colors in my photos are the exact colors in the site I’ve been designing. Art imitates nature!
All around the shore of the pond Purple Loosestrife, Joe-Pye-Weed, Early Goldenrod, Queen Anne’s Lace, and Jewelweed mingle within a backdrop of green foliage. Bees, butterflies, and dragonflies flit from one to the other, never pausing in the activity of their work.
The Black-eyed Susan has managed one small display some distance from the shore and alongside a small grove of trees. I suspect that deer are enjoying it, as the blossoms last just a few days, are then gone, and a new bunch bravely comes forward.
Black-eyed Susan
Queen Anne’s Lace, Jewelweed, Purple Loosestrife
SilverLining 
Your photographs are great – color, focus, center of attention, color. Very nice!
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Thanks for the compliment to my photos! And, thanks for visiting my blog. Please stop by again!Mary
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Mary -Your blog is like a virtual walk in the park. Welcome respite at the end of an actual day.Your Queen Anne\’s Lace photo reminds me of a favorite song lyric – Purple clover Queen Anne laceCrimson hair across your faceYou could make me cry if you don\’t knowCan\’t remember what I was thinking ofYou might be spoiling me too much loveYer gonna make me lonesome when you go.Flowers on the hillside blooming crazyCrickets talking back and forth in rhymeBlue river running slow and lazyI could stay with you foreverAnd never realize the time.\”Alas, autumn approaches . . .
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Thanks, Geronimo. The respite you\’ve found at my blog is just what I hope for, for my readers.The lyrics you share are beautiful and tugged at my memory. They took me back to the \’70s and made me wonder if they are from a song I might have once known. I was not surprised to find that they are by the minstrel master of that era – Bob Dylan, who is still at the top of my list of favorite song writer/musicians. Thanks and please visit my site again – Mary
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