It's that time of year when green starts to be replaced with yellows, browns and sometimes shades of red. I love fall but I also love green. Green has got to be the most ubiquitous color in nature; it comes in all shades and hues. It is because of nature that green is my favorite color. You can tell just by wandering through my house. We have a green couch and lots of green house plants. All of our bathrooms have different shades of green, which turned out to be completely accidental and amuses me when I think about it. My bathroom has bright green accents that are the very specific shade of green that is my absolute favorite. In my closet I have a new fleece coat from LLBean that is a bright green as well as other green clothing items. My craft area in the basement is mostly green and Emma's playroom in the basement has a dark, bright green floor, too. I think I like having so much green in the house to remind me of nature, especially in the winter.
I used to live in California- right in the heart of the northern part of the central valley in Davis. Winters were mild and variably moist. Summers were hot, dry, and dusty. And this weird thing happened with the change of the seasons. Deciduous trees lost their leaves in the winter and stood bare and craggly throughout the rains; the grasses all turned green and lush. Yet come summer when the heat was stifling and the grass turned brown and died, the leaves on the trees were green. Not a pretty green- a dull, waxy, olive green. It was a strange juxtaposition that left me missing the familiar Midwestern change of seasons and the numerous shades of green.
Green just makes me happy!
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