I can never get enough of autumn color! It's still rather hot here, but the elements have arrived. What we need now is a hint of morning frost to go with the mums, pumpkins, leaves, grapes, and acorns, then all will be right with the world.
For more mosaics, pop on over to Mary's Little Red House today!
My contribution for today's Pink Saturday... a hand-lettered sign, because one of the things I love best about summer are the flowers.
For more pink, visit Beverly's How Sweet the Sound.
Today is a day that's traditionally celebrated with red, white and blue, so here's my twist on a patriotic color scheme, which should fall in line a little better with Pink Saturday!
I love this shade of pink - not too light, not too dark... in fact, perfectly delicious. When I saw these carnations I had to buy a bunch. I think they set off this thrifted (would you believe 50 cents?) blue and white striped round vase just right. Happy beginning of summer everyone, and Happy Pink Saturday too!
Yellow for sunshine and lavender for... well, lavender season! Two colors that speak summer.
Cosmos is my favorite summer flower. It's shade of pink is so delicious, and any flower in the daisy family can always be counted on to be perky, as summer flowers ought to be. They're not a needy flower, either - it only takes one or two in a vintage bottle to make a simple but charming vignette. They grow like crazy around here, so there'll be no shortage of perkiness around this house the next few months!
Be sure to visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for more Pink Saturday.
I love white! It's my favorite color, and before you start thinking white isn't a color, have you noticed all the shades of white there are? Cream, eggshell, vanilla, snowdrop, cloud, sugarcane, winter, linen, ivory, pearl... all of them created by adding just a smidgeon of color to pure white. I love the fact that texture is what makes white so interesting - on shutters or lace curtains, in white ironstone displays, rough-hewn walls, or piles of sunbleached linens. It's the play of light and shadow that keeps white lively. To me, it's irresistible!
Starting today, I'll be joining Little Red House for Monday Mosaics each week - I just discovered there are several others who also love making these little photo collages! And to see my other mosaics, click here.
Photos from BailiwickDesigns and flickr.
Today's Pink Saturday comes to you from a spot 3,000 miles away from where I usually find my pinks. Good thing, because I'm running low on California pinks. Here in New York I found that Spring is just now blooming, and I'm enjoying the lovely cherry and redbud trees all over again - their west coast cousins finished up their pinkness quite some time ago. These pretty trees are dotted all around the east end of Long Island, and in some places the ground is absolutely covered with pink petal-confetti!
This pink farmhouse just barely peeks out from all the surrounding greenery...
and this pink tree is a pretty compliment to a white house with a blue door, don't you think?
Happy Pink Saturday! Please visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound to see more pink gathered from the west coast to the east coast and all points in between.
Pink is such a great color. It has a huge range, from palest blush and petal pink, to pink pinks like peppermint and bubblegum and carnation, and dark pinks like fuchsia and raspberry. Don't you just love the yummy names you can use to describe pink? My favorites are the deep dark pinks, like this bougainvillea. I love this shrub! I love how it climbs up walls and along fences, and adds amazing color to the landscape, and I love it's papery thinness.
This enormous bougainvillea caught my eye as I passed by, and I screeched to a stop so I could take pictures to go with the photos I had just taken of another one that stretches about 10 feet across a fence in my mom's backyard. It was a bougainvillea morning!
I think of hot summer days when I see these vivid blossoms. With all the bougainvilleas I've suddenly started noticing, I have a feeling summer is just around the corner!
Be sure to visit Beverly's blog today for more wonderful pinkness!
The month of May, already! This year seems to be rushing by, so I guess it's true that the older you get, the faster time spins by. May Day as a holiday never really took hold in America because the Puritans frowned upon it, but as a child I always enjoyed reading about May Day celebrations in English stories - they were full of merriment and maypoles and ribbon. My friends and I would do our part by making cones out of colored construction paper and ribbon, then picking flowers to put inside. We'd hang them on the doorknobs of the older women on the street, ring the bell, and run. I suppose those women must have known the flowers had been stolen from their own gardens! I don't go around ringing bells and running any more, but I must confess I still steal flowers. These lovely roses (and lots more, ohhh, lots more!) came from an empty house across the street that has six rose bushes towering over the porch. The house has been empty for about two years, but the roses keep blooming every spring and summer - very profusely I might add. I can't help myself. When one bouquet dies I just have to go over and cut another, thief that I am. But really, you can't even tell, the bushes are that full.
It's also Pink Saturday today, although here it's pink with a little yellow thrown in! Be sure to visit everyone else's pinks too.
