I Love Purple~

If you asked me last week to tell you my favorite color~~
it wouldn't have been purple!

It would most certainly have been

a water colored pink flower like this gaura or

the salmon pink Tapien Verbena that has been blooming since early spring.

The floriferous Goldenrods would have been in the running.

Of course, the sweet lilac flowers

of Tartar Aster, are dear to my heart.
They were still attracting the Monarch Butterflies before the rains returned.

But, purple my favorite?

Never!

It would have been the blue of

October skies seen over the distant hills

or through the tall grasses.

Purple never crossed my mind....until,

I decided to paint the tuteur. It was barely visible in the wayback of the Garden of Benign Neglect and would have been more invisible as the fall colors turned to winter browns. Without a white blanket of snow our gardens are mulch brown punctuated with junipers and a few hollies. Painting seemed an easy and fun solution.

The debate was between Chinese Red or French Blue, but,
when I saw the Deep Velvet Purple paint sample~Wow!
It was just what the garden needed~~So the tuteur

was painted a rich purple.
Then a bird house was painted a rich purple...and before long
there were purple pops of color all over the garden.

That was when I knew~~

I loved purple!

Gail

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you."
(Rabbi Rashi, February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105)