Right now, autumn has come out in full force colour-wise. We're enjoying a week of very mild August-like weather but the trees think it's October. I'll have some autumn images for you before too long (they're still in my camera), but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy some of the many photos I still have from summer. It may be winter by the time I get around to red leaves.
We were always intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors live.
~ Andre Derain
~ Edouard Manet
Our hanging basket of fuchsia, brilliantly backlit by the sun. It was recently killed off by an overnight frost.![Handsome jay](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5594/15271048846_6d8a085e95_c.jpg)
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
~ John Ruskin
A handsome jay dressed in the finest of blues.
~ Michele Cooper
The beautiful centerpiece on our table at Frank's niece's wedding, in August.![neighbouring docks](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3912/15294081855_1021f97cae_c.jpg)
Colours are brighter when the mind is open.
~ Adriana Alarcon
You can tell it's summer when every neighbour has at least two different boats tied to their docks.![chipper and watermelon](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3888/15107495838_890f35749c_c.jpg)
Colours are nature gone wild.
~ Raheel Farooq
One of our sweet little chipmunk friends enjoying some watermelon.![sunflower](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5577/15290925751_dca56bda28_k.jpg)
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour:
Color and I are one.
~ Paul Klee
An unexpected sunflower which grew in a pot outside our kitchen door. We didn't plant it there. It must have been the wind or a thoughtful squirrel.![seadoo kidlets](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3913/15112777930_a7fbcd4014_c.jpg)
And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
~ Shel Silverstein
Kidlets from a cottage rental up the road enjoying their time on the water.![pretty bug](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5560/15271043186_80de45743f_c.jpg)
Colours are life.
~ Chuma Nwokolo
This little moth was wandering the wall in our stairway, one evening. All I knew about him was that he was pretty colourful. After taking a few macro images of him, I scooped him up and transferred him outside where he belonged. Through the powers of Google, I have since discovered that he is a Painted Lichen Moth.![seating for six](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3890/15107314689_9a86a113c9_c.jpg)
Colour stops me in the street, invites me to breathe it in and take it with me.
~ Suzanne Partridge
A grouping of painted chairs and their shimmering reflection in the water. You'll find these right next door at my neighbour's lawn.![orange moon3](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5560/15276450456_e5b2fa2dab_c.jpg)
Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The blood orange perigee/supermoon in a twilight blue sky.Thanks for allowing me to blend colours with you. More photos coming up soon.