You may remember me talking about Brown Season here in Colorado, but I’m not sure I’ve ever shown you how ridiculously GREEN it gets in late spring. Everywhere around me on my walk along our path today was a different shade and it got me thinking about an email I received a few days ago.

I’m on a list for a gentleman named Rob Walker who wrote a book called “The Art of Noticing.” In his latest bi-monthly email, he mentioned that his new mini-habit was to begin looking for a Color of the Day. He states, “The best part of declaring a Color of the Day is the choosing: being open, and letting whatever you’re noticing guide you to some color that catches your eye; and then deciding, “Yes, that’s it, that’s today’s color.”  Well, today, my friends, green was certainly the color.

It had rained softly most of the night and by mid-day, the humidity was still heavy in the air. The sky was a mix of overcast clouds that would occasionally thin out enough to add a warm glow on the things around me.

It felt like I was seeing every tint and shade as I walked down the path. It made me wonder how a color palette might look from the various images I made, so I used a trick we talk about in my Graphic Design class and loaded the images into Adobe Color.

It lets you see all the hex codes and the individual tints and shades that are represented in each picture. It comes in really handy when we’re trying to decide on color themes for projects. I also secretly wish that they enabled this feature in Lightroom so I could sort my catalog by specific colors. Do you ever get fixated on a color? Have you ever tried to capture it?

Feeling especially green – Angie