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Debbie Smyth

-Singapore

Temple Pizzazz

Hex colour reference:  #ff1dce A colourful note:  this bright shade of magenta, known as purple pizzazz,  joined Crayola in 1990 as part of its fluorescent specialty set. It is the same colour […]

Horse

Not-so-White Horses

If you want to see the white horses looking white, you need to visit very early in the day.  I did wonder if they rolled so exuberantly deliberately to annoy the […]

-Kent

Let The Heavens Dance

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it […]

-Turkey

Purple Majesty in Istanbul

Hex colour reference:  #9d81ba A colourful note:  the Purple Mountain’s Majesty crayon was named by  89 year old Mildred Samson from Minneapolis, as part of Crayola’s 1993 naming competition.  It was run as […]

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Leith Reflections

Leith, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, has been a part of Edinburgh since 1920. Copyright Debbie Smyth, 18 March 2016     Linked to Weekend Reflections  

-Turkey

Purple Heart

  Hex colour Reference:  #7442c8 A colourful note:  the purple heart crayon was another shade that played a part in 1997 in the True Blue Heroes contest in the US and the […]

-London

Tall Paul

At 111 metres in height, the current St Paul’s Cathedral was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962, when it was overtaken by the Post Office tower (now known as […]