As it is officially SUMMER – the brightest colourful season, and the school year ends, I think about colour. 
Colour is everywhere. We are under the power of colour; it touches almost everything in the world around us.
But we often take colours for granted. I catch myself, again and again, saying "I don't like bright colours" not having a clue why?! You will rarely see me wearing red, green, or yellow... unless they are colours in the pastel range, soft and subtle.  I prefer white decor, almost colourless. I enjoy black and white photography. I buy white ironstone. My car is dark blue. When my son chooses some bright coloured clothes (his tie for his graduation is pink!), I immediately search for good enough reasons to make him change his mind. Why? I know I am classically introverted and don't like attention, but what is wrong with the colour? Does it have anything to do with perhaps the broken bond between my inner child and my inner adult? Why do children always enjoy bright colourful things? They think colourless is b.o.r.i.n.g and associate bright, highly saturated hues with pleasant moments, fun and happy times. I believe we adults do it too, but many of us also think bright colour combinations lack seriousness, style as it screams for attention. If we take for example older people, who are often made to feel invisible in the society,  when an older woman wears pink, violet, green or other vibrant colours, it honestly surprises a lot of us, even though we like it.
Bright colours spark energy and creativity. They can change our mood and the mood of others around us. Colour originates in light and has power (or we empower it). Colour has a great impact on the way we perceive the world as well as the way we make ourselves visible, important, alive; with every colour choice, we say something about ourselves.
Look at me! I am here! This is me! I am sad! I don't want to be seen! I am not in my happy stage of life! I want the whole world to know I am happy! Let's have fun! I take myself seriously! I don't take myself seriously! I don't care what others think!
Colour can create balance, harmony, peacefulness, excitement, tension, nostalgia...
    
What does your colour preference reveal about you?

 With some of my pictures, taken as part of a photography class project, I wish you a happy, fun, beautiful, colour {full}  SUMMER!
Embrace your inner child!
Find joy and colour in the simplest of things!
Colour your life, make it beautiful!
And when this summer you look for something fun and joyous," don't forget to count yourself in."



Simple Things Talking in Colour
















I want to believe, in my soul, I am still that little wondering girl who dreams of that land with cloudless blue skies and bluebirds flying somewhere over the rainbow...
                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Thank you to all of you, my old and new readers!