Please click on the Photo Page to the left – Then return and read my story on Color/Colour.

MY STORY ON COLOR:

In the 1980’s I traveled full-time throughout United States and Europe for a large computer manufacturing company.  This company had sub-companies in each country that sold and maintained the computers. The computers were mostly designed and manufactured in the United states. 

One of my jobs was to keep all country managers and U.S. developing managers working peacefully together to resolve documentation and language translation issues.

In Canada and United Kingdom color vs colour could become and issue. Color/colour really caught my eye in places like Newfoundland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.  Why all the color?  Why announce your town has a Jellybean Row.

The romantic story is the village fishermen often got caught in fog and used the brightly colored houses to glow through the fog bank and guide them home.

Some say “tourism” has much to do with “Jellybean Row”  –   Travel agents insist you take a Jellybean Row bus tour.

Some say it is not the Fishermen that needed the guiding light of the brightly colored house but the local folks leaving the Pub legless, in the middle of the night – which is up to 20 hours long.

Others say it was the churches trying to solve the depression of gloomy colors during a 20 hour night. Think about it – 4 hours of sun light in mid winter – and only on those days when it is not snowing or Ice Fogging.  Ice fog is a type of fog consisting of fine ice crystals suspended in the air. It occurs as water droplets suspended in the air – they can remain liquid down to −40 °C (−40 °F).  Bright colors are needed to cheer things up.

The Great Outdoors, which I love dearly, is often void of color.   Well it has green, grey, black/brown – that is about it. It needs more color since the average  humans can see 1 million shades of color – a lot more than green, grey, black/brown.

Like Jellybean Row – I decided to practice with PhotoShop – Practice my landscape designs – Practice project number 1,  color/colour up the entrance to the community I live in – Hidden Lakes, of the Great Outdoors RV and Golf Resort. – What your think!  Soon, I will begin PhotoShopping the design of a winter project for my home – a garden with capital COLOR, COLOUR.  – After designing, I must create it – Yipes

As I photographed the entrance to Hidden Lakes.

As I created my anti depression view.  Wow – No hint of a long winter’s depression here!

Oh my: “What colour are the sweets the bloke put in your boot.”  = “What color is the candy the man put in the trunk of your car.”

Oh my: “leaving the Pub legless”  = Leaving the Bar too drunk to walk”

 

Oh my – Swinging  through 1 million colors – in black and white!