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Gilded Balustrade

Skeppsholmsbron , the Skeppsholm Bridge, dates back to 1861.  This iron road bridge, with pedestrian pathways on either side, connects Blasieholmen in central Stockholm to the island of Skeppsholmen. At 165 metres in […]
Gilded Balustrade

-Turkey

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

-Barcelona

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

-Sweden

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 […]

-Barcelona

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 […]