Saturation Saturday: Chartreuse

the color half way between yellow and green

illustrating an article - 

"Chartreuse plants to make your garden memorable"

name any food that would look good on these?

most often described as "an acquired taste"

but it looks so much like absinthe

a chartreuse creek

Vanessa in a Chartreuse Dress

by Mickey Cunningham

halfway between yellow and green

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Saturation Saturday: Red

a Japanese Red Maple

that would be a redhead

Yes you vegans and vagans - Red Meat!

Mmm, red hair.

Amsterdam's famed Red Light District

Red Candles - Valentin Popov

a very red cardinal

a flock of red cardinals

I know, I know!

I can't help it.

probably has red hair too . . .

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Saturation Saturday: Rainbow

Today seek no deeper meaning than pretty colors

from the lips of a babe - no deeper meaning

pictures, pretty pictures

they say they do this with food coloring in the water

I get that for blue roses or purple roses

but this?

can you say photoshop...

this one has been in the pic file for a couple of years

this one too

 a rainbow seemed mandatory

this is a diffuse rainbow

also called a fire rainbow

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Saturation Saturday: Silver

a silver tabby 
a simply gorgeous creature if you go for looks

Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear

okay different movie, different reference, but still

a silverback

the apex of alpha males

I couldn't decide between this eye

and this one

I was torn between an Olympic silver medal

the penultimate sports award

and a silver bullet

the vampire werewolf stopper

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Saturation Saturday: Purple

Did you know that purple cauliflower (and all the other colors as well) are naturally occurring and higher in some vitamins and minerals than the off white variety.

Purple Kush

that's purple marijuana for those not up on pot lingo

a super purple fish

I do not know why he is super

a purple urchin

not super just purple

a variable purple USA

instead of red states and blue states

this map goes by percentage of votes

instead of winner take all

and this would be a

one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people-eater

who needs her roots touched up

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Late April in The Netherlands

Today a visual extravaganza. I received these pictures a couple of months ago, makes one want to visit in the season of the bloom.

 Yes those are all tulips.

and more tulips

with the obligatory windmill

 My favorite, I like the sea of orange.

too much?

Did you know that after the spring bloom, all of the bulbs are taken out of the ground and vegetables are planted.

--
Thanks to Jan Marks for the forwarded photos

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