Concede Conceit Conceive

How odd this sign would come up when the Horror today tells me something similar. Not what I intended to do on this stormy day, but frankly I am not keen on being in the deserted industrial park today listening to the roof falling in and dodging raccoons when I head for the dumpster.  So the inanimous verdict is in, apparently----

Focus your attention on your finances today, for the simple act of balancing your checkbook goes a long way toward preventing future headaches. Thankfully, you have a heightened ability now to shut out extraneous distractions, enabling you to do the basic accounting that otherwise can make you crazy. Sort through the details, set your priorities and settle down to work.

And I will sit here and pay some bills.  HATE that!  But the pile is up to my elbow and they don't take care of themselves, do they...

(Speaking of raccoons--This little guy got himself trapped in a grate and the firefighters came and pulled him put with the help of grease and detergent.  They then took him back to the firehouse and gave him a bath.  Hope he found his mom after he got released because he needs a few more raccoony lessons before he's ready for Prime Time.)

'Starry Night' by Vincent van Dominough (do yourself a favor and watch this full-screen)


Fabulous series of travel surreal travel photographs by NY photographer Ofer Wolberger called 'Life with Maggie', who is a masked woman encountering different situations.  Make sure and look at all of them, here's Maggie with James Dean.

A few years ago I 'discovered' sriracha sauce, their one being my favorite brand, or perhaps just the largest supply a human is allowed to have on hand at any one time.  But then I saw this with a spray attachment on top-  It's now perfect!  One shot and I'm good to go.  Brilliant addition.

(BTW, this stuff makes everything taste a bit better, a Sandy-approved condiment.)

Hey-  It might be time for a Pepper Mandala from Kathy Klein, So Pretty!

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older,it will avoid you.  Winston Churchill

While reading even more about color the other day I came across this list of color names and thought it quite funny.  There were lots of other charts and names too, so go to Doghouse Diaries if you need more charting and graphing...  


The point of this, and there is one though slight, is to tell you about my old classes where I would hold up a hunk o' fabric in a sort of odd color and ask for the color name to be written down.  I would then go around the room and have them read their color names to the class and they were never duplicated, often creative, and very illustrative of how differently we perceive color without that color in front of us.  


Describe 'salmon' for instance-  what primaries would you use to mix a little pile of 'salmon' colored paint?  How does it differ from coral or peach or 'sunset' or or or or Amber Apricot Carrot orange Champagne Coral Brown Burnt orange Portland Orange Dark salmon Terracotta Amber Gamboge orange Mahogany Orange  Orange-red Orange peel Peach Peach-orange Peach-yellow Persimmon Pink-orange Pumpkin Rust Safety orange Salmon Tangerine Tenné (Tawny) Tomato Vermilion...  and on and on.  Actually, The  color of salmon flesh varies from almost white to deep pink, depending on their levels of the carotenoid astaxanthin due to how rich a diet of krill and shrimp the fish feeds on; salmon raised on fish farms are (sometimes) given artificial coloring in their food.  Examples of web salmons and corals:  

Light salmon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FFA07A
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 160, 122)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(14°, 62%, 100%)
Source		X11[1][2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Coral Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#F88379
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(248, 131, 121)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(16°, 69%, 100%)
Source		ISCC-NBS[4]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Coral
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF7F50
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 127, 80)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(16°, 69%, 100%)
Source		HTML/CSS[1] X11 color names[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

salmon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#E9967A
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(233, 150, 122)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(15°, 48%, 91%)
Source		X11[1][2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (b

(Crayola)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF91A4
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 145, 164)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(14°, 62%, 100%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Light Coral
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF8080
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(240, 128, 128)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 50%, 100%)
Source		HTML/CSS[1] X11 color names[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Dark Coral
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#CD5B45
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(205, 91, 69)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(10°, 66%, 80%)
Source		[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

 The mind boggles and this is just one color, though I guess two fishes.  And that's enough salmons and corals for today, I'm hungry!  if you go to buy some, make sure it's wild-caught, sometimes a different color from farmed. And don't buy any coral.