Santa Maria Church, Calvi, Corsica, May 2016
Hex colour reference: FDBCB4
A colourful note: the first use of the English word melon as a colour was recorded in 1892. The colour, it seems, is named after the interior flesh of the cantaloupe variety of the fruit.
This pink-peach shade became a Crayola colour in 1958.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 7 January 2017
Part of Color Your World
Travel with Intent 
This is a fine capture! 🙂
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Thanks Paula
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Has this challenge just started again? I love that church and am convinced I’d adore Calvi 🙂
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It has indeed – 3 colourful months are under way!
And yes, you’d love Calvi
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What a lovely building!
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Yes, a charmer. But hard to get a good view of it as hemmed in. Needed to go aerial I think!
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Perhaps so!
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Just imagine all those businessmen in the city marching around with their brollies in hand and green watermelons on their heads. Who would take them seriously?
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🍉 🕵😀
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Thank you. At long last! I wondered about the name, because I thought it might have to do with the flower of a certain variety. Now I still have to find out why (black) bowler hats are called Melonen in German…
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resemble rotten melons?
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In fact, come to think of it, they use melon in French too. So I had to look it up!
Simply due to its shape I think – and it seems melon hat is sometimes used in English too.
Though could be confused with this: http://4kwallpapershd.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Melon-Hat-Girl-Funny-4k-Photo.jpg
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I rather doubt it.
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