color//colour pink

monday's pink 
was all bubblegum 
and pink flamingos
and mostly, pretend


tuesday's pink
had nothing to do 
with parking


wednesday's pink
was a love letter
to bright pink hair 
and the sweetest pink vintage dress 
and to the girl (my girl)
who wears both


thursday's pink
was a little gem of a kitchen
that I think of all the time
(all the time)


friday's pink
was the soundtrack
that gave 15 year-old andrea
hope


saturday's pink
was the last of the pink
and the last of the color//colour
but the beginning 
of the blooms
and so much
so much everything

(color//colour lovers twenty eighteen! fini)

(thank you, all you color//colour lovers out there, and thank you to my friend and terrific color-hunting partner in crime, xanthe)

color//colour green

monday's green 
was monday's inevitability



tuesday's green
was just, so much wishful thinking



wednesday's green
was miraculous seventy degree weather
and the little jolt you get
when you bring home something
green and alive



thursday's green
was like a painting



friday's green
was rain in the forecast
and new york
on my mind



saturday's green 
was the promise
of pink

next up/this week: PINK

(more color//colour lovers project info here, follow along here)

color//colour red

monday's red
was a little bit yellow
because sometimes I have trouble letting go



tuesday's red 
was basquiat's red
the best red, really



wednesday's red
was construction paper and leftover scraps
and, like it or not, love



thursday's red
had nothing to do
with thursday



friday's red
had everything to do
with friday
(happy lunar new year, friends)



saturday's red 
was a little scene
I'd like to step into
again and again

this week: GREEN

(more color//colour lovers project info here, follow along here)

color//colour yellow

monday's yellow 
was also monday's blue 
(thus, completely serendipitous)



tuesday's yellow
was totally february's wishful thinking



wednesday's yellow 
was wednesday's gold
and indiana's cold 
and the open field across the street from the motel just off the interstate 
where we stayed while we said goodbye to someone we loved



thursday's yellow
was what felt like every spine of every national geographic magazine, ever
in the world



friday's yellow
was the promise of a return to new york
and the scent of honey roasted peanuts 




saturday's yellow
was an unexpected love 
for tubing the color of sunshine

next up: R E D

(more color//colour lovers project info here)

color//colour blue

monday's blue
was found at the corner of memorial and boulevard



tuesday's blue
was found in ava's room



wednesday's blue
was a gem from nola times



thursday's blue
was a gem from mountain times




friday's blue
was friday's optimism



saturday's blue
was saturday's mood

next up: yellow yellow yellow

(project info here)

five, five and five

five colors, five weeks, in celebration of five years of color collecting our way through the infinite depths of winter. 

color//colour lovers (that yearly labor of collaborative color love between myself and the ever-ebullient xanthe) is on its fifth go round and every year I think maybe we're finished, maybe the project has run its course, but then, sometime around the middle of january, I hear the color calling. inevitably, an email lands in my box, or one in xanthe's, with a familiar subject line: fancy another color//colour lovers go round? 

and, who I am to say no? when color calls, I answer. every time. 

should you hear the color calling, should you find yourself wanting to answer, the invitation is open, always, to play along-- hunt color, wear color, eat color, shoot color, seek color, share color, share it wherever, whenever, here, there, everywhere. line-up as follows:

monday, january 29th-- blue
monday, february 5th-- yellow
monday, february 12th-- red
monday, february 19th-- green
monday, february 26th-- pink

(find us here, there, everywhere-- blogs, instagrams, tumblr, yada yada yada-- and before you know it, we'll be swimming in color, all of us)

color//colour orange

in the name of the color orange, I:

ate a lot of oranges. no really, I did.
asked ezra if he'd make me an orange paper crane. (he did).
picked the orange crayon when given the choice, which was exactly once.
positioned myself perfectly over the orange paint on the sidewalk.
wished for a bundle of orange ranunculus. you guys, I can't ever find orange ranunculus anymore.
dreamt of sunsets over oceans captured with iphones whilst driving over bridges.
drank one bottle of orange fanta soda, wished for more.
because I have a problem with the fruity sodas.

fyi, this year's color//colour project has long since ended but I'm determined to finish.

color//colour green

in the name of the color green, I:

walked in the green(ish) grass in my bare (cold) feet.
noticed the beginnings of green(ish) leaves on the trees in our backyard.
named every single green succulent that currently resides in our home.
okay, named all the green non-succulent living things too.
silently celebrated the BP gas station down on boulevard that is so totally doing its own thing.
waxed poetic about a battered old green hotel sign down on ponce and the early years of marriage.
dreamt of wild mint that grew in giant clumps back at our old house in portland.
dreamt of battered old green doorways and spanish moss that hangs crazy down in savannah.
did not hang the bundle of eucalyptus in the shower as planned.
did not eat enough green things, not even close.

(more of my greens here, more about color//colour lovers here, lovely co-collaborator xanthe's green here and both of our colors live quite happily here)

(having since blown through the final two weeks devoted to orange and blue, color//colour lovers is now officially over and obviously, I am a leetle behind) 

(expect a barrage of orange here and then probably a riot of blue and then, of course, a fond color//colour lovers adieu) 

color//colour pink

in the name of the color pink, I:

consumed exactly one tiny cupcake with pink frosting,
went out of my way to drive by the mysterious section of fence painted pink near my house.
failed to photograph the neon pink bus parked outside the bail bonds joint.
found it at the grocery store in buckets of the pinkest roses.
found it down on boulevard in the shell pink pom pom of baby's knit hat.
watched for pink skies pretty much every night.
chewed pink bubblegum pretty much every day.

(more of my pinks here, more about color//colour lovers here, lovely co-collaborator xanthe's pink here and both of our colors live quite happily here)

last week: green, green, green. this week: orange!