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Vivid Beauty

  Hex colour reference:  #8f509d A colourful note:  vivid violet appeared as a new Crayola shade in 1997, a vary busy  crayon year.  The company introduced a fair number of new names and […]
Vivid Beauty

Sweet Ending

  “There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last” Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Copyright Debbie Smyth, 15 April […]
Sweet Ending

Foxy Coastline, Wolfy Sky

Stockholm at night,  February 2016 Hex colour reference:  #dbd7d2 A colourful note:  the timberwolf colour was named after a large type of wolf with grey brindled fur, found mainly in northern […]

Warm Welcome in Raval

  Hex colour reference:  #5d5e53 A colourful note: sunset orange joined the Crayola collection in 1997 as a dark orange shade.  Sunset’s first recorded use as a colour name in English was […]

Street Food in Shocking Pink

  Hex colour reference:  #fb7efd A colourful note:  shocking pink is one of the fluorescent shades that won their current name in 1990, this one having previously been known as Ultra Pink Fluorescent, since […]

Welcome!

Apologies to the very welcoming Istanbul, but the clouds on this dreary morning made a tempting editing exercise for a forbidding challenge! Copyright Debbie Smyth, 1 April 2016   Linked to Thursday […]