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

[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)