"Eventually, I hear footsteps crunching along the side of the house through the glazed snow and my mother's navy blue sigh through the frozen air." from The Language of [...]
Our country property in Indiana is finally, gloriously saturated with green. I've never been so hungry and so thirsty for green! After this long hard winter and all its [...]
I haven't done the color list exercise in a while, mainly because I thought I had covered all the main colors already. For the uninitiated, the idea of the [...]
The month of March has crept up without me presenting a color list exercise yet, but here we go. I have one more color left, I think, and that's [...]
Since we already did red, which would also have been appropriate for February, the month of Valentine's Day, the color for this month is purple. At least there is [...]
Dusty Miller at the Lincoln Park Conservatory Even though there still is no snow outside here in Chicago, the color for this month is going to be white, perhaps [...]
Driving towards downtown Chicago recently It seems like all the color is gone now outside, and days like the one in my photo here are more prevalent. Thus, the [...]
Another month has begun, so it's time for another color list. The color for November will be brown as it seems a month rich with so many earthly things. [...]
What would fall be without pumpkins? So October's color is orange. For the uninitiated, the idea here is to come up with ways to evoke orange without mentioning the color [...]
September is the month of lushness - all the fruits and vegetables are ripe and deep in color. So this month's color is the most forceful of colors: red. [...]
The sun is still high up in the sky so the color for this month of August is the color of the sun - yellow. For the uninitiated, the [...]
Red, white and ____. You guessed it: In honor of Independence Day, the color of this month’s color list is blue. For the uninitiated, the idea here is to [...]
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 [...]
One of the challenges in writing evocative descriptions is getting the color just right. Making your reader see what you see will draw him or her into the scene, [...]