2022 Year in Review - Instapuzzle

“Celebrate endings for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

🥂 Cheers to the colors of 2022: January blues • February’s lovely, rosy hues • The wearing o’ the green in March • Sunny yellow to offset April showers • May’s lilacs and violets • Pure whites befitting a June bride • Every heart beats true for the red, white, and blue in patriotic July • The spectrum of August • Down to earth in September • Orange you glad it’s October? • November in black and white • The festive colors of the holidays in December.

🥂 Cheers to a new challenge in 2023: Creating an Instapuzzle — a series of image that when viewed together create one seamless visual. I practiced with this post and hope to accomplish this goal next year.

2021 in Color

“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky

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January Blues • February’s lovely, rosy hues • The wearing o’ the green in March • Sunny yellow to offset April showers • May’s lilacs and violets • Pure whites befitting a June bride • Every heart beats true for the red, white, and blue in patriotic July • Favorite things in August • Down to earth in September • Orange you glad it’s October? • November in black and white • The colors of the season in December

December • Colors of the Month

“What is the colour of Christmas? Red? The red of the toyshops on a dark winter’s afternoon, Of Father Christmas? Or green? Green of holly and spruce and mistletoe in the house, dark shadow of summer in leafless winter? One might plainly add a romance of white, fields of frost and snow…” ― William Sansom

October • Colors of the Month

It is one of my favorite months, yet when I imagine a color to represent October, I immediately think of orange — my least favorite color (Read why here). I won’t deny that orange leaves and pumpkins add seasonal charm to October photographs, but I can’t commit to a whole month of orange pictures. So what color is October?

Perhaps Anne Shirley described it best: “October was a beautiful month at Green Gables [and in Wisconsin — MLH], when the birches in the hollow turned as golden as sunshine and the maples behind the orchard were royal crimson and the wild cherry trees along the lane put on the loveliest shades of dark red and bronzy green, while the fields sunned themselves in the aftermaths. Anne reveled in the world of color about her....I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?" - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables.

Cheers to a brilliant October featuring the loveliest shades of autumn, and yes, even orange!

September • Colors of the Month

“Brown is the color of hearth and home — of dried herbs and stone-ground bread and freshly baked cookies. It represents all of the nurturing, life-sustaining, down-to-earth qualities of terra firma, the very shade of earth itself. Just as in the sturdy oak, brown represents roots, a steady, stable source of security, comfort, and normalcy. It is the color of fertile soil and plowed earth, buckskin and rawhide, weathered redwood, bison and mustang, frontier land — rugged and outdoorsy. It is pine cone and bracken, chipmunk and acorn, beaver and doe. Brown is considered a classic shade of solid substance.” - Leatrice Eiseman, “Brown: Earthy and Real,” Colors For Your Every Mood — Perfect for September!

July • Colors of the Month

“Ev'ry heart beats true 'neath the Red, White and Blue.” — George M. Cohan