The house colours in Burano are some of the brightest I’ve seen. This is a shade I’d call mustard, though I’m sure some of you will have other names for it.
Mustard, however, has quite a history as a colour name so I’m sticking with it. Apparently, it has been used this way in English since 1886. Mustard is also famous as the name of one of the suspects in the board game Cluedo, Colonel Mustard, and it is the colour of the belt awarded to the winner of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest at Nathan’s Famous in Coney Island, New York. (Thanks Wikipedia, for that little bit of trivia)
Linked to Monday Mellow Yellow and Our World Tuesday.
Travel with Intent 
Obviously, that was supposed to be “searched.”
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Looks like mustard to me! (I’ve wearched for a store selling house paint on Burano but didn’t find one. It would be fun to see if all colors are available or mostly just bright ones.)
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You really do have a “great eye” . Love your work!
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Thank you Lori, that’s a great compliment coming from you.
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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That is so very lovely!
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Love this ~ it is soooo creative ~ great shot for OWT ~ Happy Week to you ~ xoxo
artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)
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Great!! Boom, Bobbi and Gary.
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Great photo, looks really like mustard.
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Oh yes, definitely looks like the yellow mustard.. Great shot! Have a happy week!
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Decayed paint makes the house looks dramatic.
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Great facade color also a bit in pretty decay. Its a kind of synthetic yellow in my eyes just a bit to fierce but still a very sunny color. Thanks for showing.
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It’s mild compared with some of the houses there 😉
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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It’s cerainly English mustard colour, but too bright for French/Dijon Mustard! Can’t speak for other national mustards though…
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Ha! Good point. I think French mustard is probably more of an umber colour.
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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As a kid I never really appreciated the association of colours with different lands, the pigments’ origins with varie minerals and soils: turquoise from Turkey, burnt Sienna, umber from Umbria, Prussian blue and so on. Nowadays the range of household paint colours has resulted in much more whimsical names, divorced from geography.
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Yes, I found a whole dictionary of colour words, which is fascinating. “A Dictionary of Colour / Ian Paterson, Thorogood Publishing, London, 2004. ISBN 1 85418 375 3”
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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I would also say it is mustard coloured however when I saw this shot it reminded me of a very similar I took in Poland some years ago.
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Fun ny how you get the same exterior paint colours around the world
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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