Saturday 26 June 2010

Purple

I struggled to find anything purple this week.  I was surprised.  You'd think some of the palaces and châteaux would have yielded a little purple but either it wasn't there or I avoided it.  Looking through my archives has become unwieldy, now that I have so many photos, but then I discovered a clever tool in Picasa - you can search on a colour!  How clever!

I would have to argue with some of Picasa's choices, (I really have no idea why a picture of my face should be included!), but on the whole they've set me off in the direction of flowers.  Not especially exciting, but by now I was ready to accept anything.  Then I started to wonder where purple starts and red or blue ends.....

Multi-coloured aubretia

So many different shades, some of which could be called purple.


Lavender in the sun

In fact Picasa didn't label this as purple but I like the way the sun was shining only on the taller flowers and left the rest in the shade. "Lavender's blue dilly, dilly" but it looks purple to me.


Lilac

A lilac flower. Is lilac purple? Picasa thinks so.


A cardoon or artichoke thistle

Another of Picasa's choices that I might have left out, but beggars can't be choosers.


Aquilegia, columbine, or granny's bonnets

Finally agreement. This definitely is a purple, I'm sure of it.


If you'd like to join in the PhotoHunt and discover how colour blind I am compared with other players, pay a visit to TNchick's site where you can find out more. 

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17 comments:

  1. The picture of the lavender makes me feel like I'm standing in a breezy meadow.

    Mine is here.

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  2. Wasn't purple considered a royal color by some people? Guess that's not the case with the French or English!

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  3. @Alice, more like our breezy garden. :)

    @YTSL, that's what I thought, but I couldn't find any amongst my pictures.

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  4. All lovely and perfect for purple.

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  5. beautiful blooms and great choices for the theme.

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  6. Those blossoms are pretty!! Happy Saturday!


    Purple blossom

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  7. Many thanks to you all!

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  8. I think those are beautiful shades of purple!

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  9. That's a Picasa feature I didn't know of!
    And what wonderful purple choices, beautiful!!!
    purple!

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  10. beautiful purple all! the lavender seems to be dancing in the wind. love it.

    thanks for the visit. :)

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  11. Such beautiful shades of purple in each. The thistle and columbine are favorites of mine. Great captures.

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  12. Thanks, all! Mar, there are all sorts of odd functions hidden in Picasa tools, especially under Experimental. I enjoying playing there. :)

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  13. THat is siucha a glorious selection of purple flowers I love them!

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  14. all such lovely captures!
    and thank you for the bit about picasa..

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  15. Those flowers are lovely! It's miserably hot where we are and everything is dying. Glad it's going better where you are!

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