yellow

[asakiyume]

My friend dudeshoes was asking if the color of spring is pink or purple (here is her sampling of purple).

I think maybe yellow needs to be a contender?

mustard, celandine, dandelions


We had dandelion greens for dinner the other night, fresh picked. They were bitter, but it was a good bitter.

ETA: Yellow, day two. Don't let anyone tell you that dandelions don't last if you pick them. They close up at night but reopen in the morning. Also, I picked more dandelions greens.



I want to share about books I've read recently, but it'll have to wait . . .

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Hereabouts it's yellow- primroses! :o)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Primroses are so lovely! A sweet, butter yellow.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

The lanes in Cornwall were crammed with them when we were down there last month.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

It is sadly too dry here for me to get primroses, cowslips or oxlips naturalized. :(

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

The UK has an appreciable amount of damp at the right times! :o)

Great minds!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Yes! I was just thinking of the colors of spring and how they change according to where you are. And then I thought: Do a spring in France photo post! And here, you've put your colors. :D

My post might have to wait, though. That forecasted rain I mentioned? It's here. :P

Re: Great minds!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The rain cloud said, "I hear you were parched over in Egypt. Let me help with that."

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

I associate spring with yellows and greens.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And white, like apple blossoms or hawthorn.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Yellow, then white, then an explosion of color.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Me too!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Yellow is a definite contender. Gets in early with forsythia, goes on to daffodils and then the dandelions and friends pop out.

I'd also put in for pale blue with the bluets.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's yellow's job to catch the sun and hold it here after a long winter.

I love bluets too--so sweet.

[cafenowhere.livejournal.com]

I like this thought about yellow's job. :)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

They are among my very favourite flowers. Again, we are too dry for them to naturalize. :( I prefer to call them Quaker maids, though.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Certainly

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

:-)

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking cowslips, gorse, celandine...

I've never eaten dandelion greens but I'd love to try them! Looking forward to book-thoughts when you've time to spare. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Okay: my goal now is to one day prepare dandelion greens for you :-)

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Yellow has always been the first color of spring to me. Forsythias and dandelions. It's not until after the forsythias are done that the purples really come on. And purple is a more retiring color while yellow screams "Look at me! Look at me! Meeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!"

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It's like the opposite of a rock concert. Instead of having a less-well-known act first, and then the main performance, you get the head-banging yellows first and then the purples coming afterward, saying, now that we have your attention....

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

And forsythia!

Forsythia fascinates me because it's still only available in one color, unlike most garden flowers.

[cafenowhere.livejournal.com]

Huh, very interesting. Thank you for pointing that out.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of that! ... Somewhere out there is a botanist trying to breed purple, pink, and orange forsythia.

[cafenowhere.livejournal.com]

I just learned a couple weeks ago about dandelions closing up shop at night! I'd been glaring at them from my office window all day, but when I finally got a chance to go pop 'em, they'd closed up and were impossible to find in the shaggy grass of my lawn.

If my neighbors didn't treat their lawns with duck-knows-what, I'd eat the dandelion greens. They look like arugula.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm really liking them! I went to the nearby organic farm, out to their fallow fields, and picked a bunch more.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I read somewhere that there's a progression of colours as spring begins and then advances. I can't remember the order, but I think it started with white for snowdrops, and then I can't remember what happened after that, though it could be yellow for daffodils, dandelions and celandines before moving on to blue and purple and finally the red of summer poppies. Of course that was for UK flora. Elsewhere it might be different.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I think we have similar here. If you talk about wild, rather than cultivated plants, then you get whites first, then yellows, then blues and purples, then everything.

English red poppies are so beautiful. The red wildflower that I enjoy seeing here is wild columbine. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Stand_of_wild_columbine.jpg)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

I love dandelion greens. :) Sheeyun loves dandelion greens. :) Chun Woo currently does not love dandelion greens. :(

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

On my end, the healing angel liked them, but Little Springtime didn't. Bitter things can be hard to develop a taste for.

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Chun Woo has liked dandelion greens alongside sweet vegetables with flesh. Perhaps he will again some day. :)

In general, his enjoyment of complex tastes has surprised me. Child has a palate. And smell is one of his lead senses.

[aefenglommung.livejournal.com]

Isn't Celandine some Canadian singer?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

One whose heart will go on, perhaps?