Since my color list for green was a success, I’ve decided to create, with your help, one color list each month.
The idea remains to come up with nouns that make you see that color without you having to mention it.
So if I say “peony” – what do you see? Pink, I hope, even though peonies do come in white as well. “Rose” wouldn’t work because you might think of a red rose while I might think of a pink one. Candy apple would be a good example for red. Adjectives are fine, too, but you will find that many of them could be nouns as well.
The color for June is pink.
I’m dying for those peonies outside of my building to finally bloom. Their buds are still tight fisted so I’m posting this picture of little pink flowers that are blooming but whose name I don’t know (please let me know if you do!). I’ve found, however, that it’s not easy to come up with nouns or adjectives for pink. Here’s my list so far, please add to it!
blush
bougainvillea
flamingo
fuchsia
hollyhock
larkspur
peony
rosy
tourmaline
watermelon
Pepto Bismol (stealing from Steel Magnolias)
salmon
AL – Pepto Bismol is great! Not so sure about salmon, I would have filed that under orange…
Magenta? Coral ( though I picture more of an orangy pink shade for coral)
Same with Salmon
Raspberry
Petunia?
Linnea is pink too
Cotton candy. (Side note: great idea and I look forward to the monthly colors!)
baby's bottom
strawberry milkshake
raspberry ice cream
cherry popsicle
lipstick
hearts can sometimes be pink
babyhellfire – magenta, yes! How could I have omitted that? Petunia, no, comes in too many other colors.
motherlogue – cotton candy, guess so, although my son likes to get the blue kind.
Nancy – strawberry milkshake, definitely!
Anjuli – I disagree on lipstick, if anything, I'd argue people would associate that with red. I guess the challenge with singling pink out as its own color is that it's "just" a shade of red…
As a long time user, pepto definitely sprung to mind along with strawberry ice cream and cotton candy, but this is fun, let me think about this:
bubble gum
chicken pox or mosquito bites
sun burn/wind burn
silly putty
breast cancer awareness
cartoon panthers
cherry blossoms
crape myrtle trees (at least mine is ~ my peonies are white!!)
flamingos!!
…I can't believe I almost forgot flamingos… did someone say that already?
I'm going to quit there. Flamingos is my best answer (although I've heard they get their color from shrimp!).
This was great fun! Thanks!!
Hi Nicole, yes, I did have flamingo and I loved your addition of sunburn and cartoon panthers! Thanks for chiming in!
candyfloss?
Okay, I've come back here twice and all my ideas were taken.
How about the I Did It 2011 Blogathon badge?
🙂
Strawberry cream
Hot Barbie Pink
Mauve
Punch
Petal
Whipped Cherries
Creamy Berries
Frosted Berry pie
Double Bubble
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Jan, yes, that Blogathon badge is pink!
The Desert Rocks – Strawberry icecream, yes! Now I want some… And how could we all have forgotten mauve but maybe that falls more into the purple category? Double Bubble – perfect!