The colour yellow is the topic for this week's Friday Shoot Out.
I live with my moment of yellow madness. A few years ago I got a bit down during a bleak winter and the lack of colour around me and decided I simply had to brighten myself somehow. I’m sure there could have been a lot of solutions – mine was to paint my fridge a bright, sunshiny yellow. Once upon a time I didn’t keep my fridge covered with invitations, photos, kids art work, etc but I do now to tone down the colour a bit.
Not long after I ran amok with the paint, a visitor who was into colour therapy enquired about my health and explained that yellow relates to the solar plexus chakra and listed off problems associated with this area. One of them was gall stones. I was pretty stunned – I was having major gall stone problems and waiting for surgery. Was I more in touch with my body than I realized?
I could have done worse. This depicts a bit more accurately how I was feeling at the time:
I still think yellow is a bright, happy colour although I will add that it looks better on the beach than it does in the kitchen:
I’ve posted a photo of this moth before but couldn’t go past it’s beautiful soft yellows to illustrate the lovely yellows we find in nature.
GB tells me it is a non-native Slender Burnished Brass (what a wonderful name) which came from West Africa to Australia and arrived here in 1984. It's now common in the north of the country. The caterpillars eat soy-bean plants, potatoes, parsley, carrots and cabbage.
Sandstone rock formation:
It took a craftsman to release the natural colours of this piece of native timber:
Yellows always look lovely in the garden whether as primary or complimentary colours:
I love the splashes of yellow added to these pieces of Polynesian art that grace the walls of
the marae (meeting place) where I work.
We see splashes of yellow around the farm. Just as a yellow flag is used in car racing to signal caution, we use a yellow plastic handle to grip to take down an electric fence. Until you get the hang of it caution is recommended.
I read that yellow shines with optimism, enlightenment and happiness. As in this next shot perhaps?
I really enjoyed this topic. If you love the colour yellow, pop over
here to see the photos of the rest of FSO members.