Mimosa is blooming and my nose knows it! It is lovely to see trees of yellow and bunches of blossom in the market. It feels as if winter has finally said goodbye and spring has sprung. Yellow is the Feng Shui colour of the earth and all about foundations, grounding and stability. If you can't manage mimosa, grab tulips, daffodils and let the sunshine return!
“I’ve been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn’t serious enough for anything darker.” – L. M. Montgomery. As we flip flop through another French lockdown, I was lucky enough today to take a walk over to a lovely beach called La Garoupe. Normally full of striped happy parasols, it was quiet and the turquoise water shone in the early spring sun. Not quite enough warmth yet but a breath of what is to come and soothing all the same. I have written posts on my favourite colour - whatever you call it, aqua,
Renoir supposedly said that nothing was so difficult, and at the same time so exciting, to paint, as white on white. White is said to be a non-colour along with black but it represents so many emotions. In Western culture, white represents purity, innocence, summer, clarity and cleanliness as if starting again. In other cultures, it represents death, sadness and silence. In Feng Shui practice it represents the element of Metal, of purity and honesty. Then in interior design, there are several hundred shades and tones ranging from cool blue hues to warmer ivory shades. It is the colour
I am taking the week off from thinking about interiors. The sun has returned so morning walks soaking in a blue sky are the focus. See you next week!
Aqua, turquoise, teal and shades in between always draw me as images of the Côte d’Azur, sea, sun and sand hang in the air. I am here in the South of France for two weeks and in a happy, poetic frame of mind. I ask for forgiveness for this lighthearted post. I swim every day in an aquamarine sea as it moves across the shore pulling back the pebbles. As a fellow sea lover says, it is my happy place! For others, mountains, cool lakes, greenery and trees call them but for me, as John Masefield said,
As John Walter Bratton sang: Take life with a pinch of salt A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime Do nothing at all But take your time Summer is upon us, or so the temperatures say for next week. If someone whispers summer to me, immediately images come to mind of the sea, sand, salt and a cool drink of lemon and lime soda at 5pm - with a shot of alcohol! They are also Mediterranean colours and fruit symbols particularly in the south of France. Menton has a whole lemon parade dedicated to the fruit. In