Outside, Everywhere – In Which I Pay Homage to Green

Green got into my soul on Wednesday

Drink

Work

Escape

Job

Underneath

History

Spend

Going Nowhere

Soft

Wet

Sunset

Behind

Resting

Galvanised Skies, Slate and Ash – In Which I Pay Homage to (Get Lost In) Grey

Oh god, I think I may have missed the wordpress deadline for posts on A Splash of Colour, but’s that’s probably because I was meandering about in the world of grey, where you don’t have any strong opinions and it’s all give and take and two sided. Then it’s suddenly the end of the week! Never mind, I offer it up anyway. Please don’t get depressed.

Grey. You might not like it but it’s everywhere. It’s the median of life, neither absence of light, nor full of light. It is hovering all around, in every shadow, touching each surface, making objects solid and deep.

It’s a symbol of authority and conservatism. Suits and ties.

It is often the muted backdrop to this temperate place, the sky washed through with a hundred shades, a comprehensive index of neutral.

It is the colour of aggregates and cement, we build with those. It is grim and tough like granite and cool and smooth like slate. It is the bloom on the wriggles of tin and the protective coating on iron. It is as heavy as lead.

 

It is mistily ambiguous, made of only of water and air.

And flaky and flyaway.

image by thepoormouth.blogspot.co.uk

But it is solid and dependable.

It is known as sombre, cheerless.

But can be practical and warm, soft and cosy. It doesn’t show the dirt

It is the cover of a favourite book

And has a certain elegance

And lest we forget…