Welcome to February’s monthly color challenge! As we approach Valentine’s Day, I thought we could explore two popular colors associated with the holiday, red and pink. The featured image demonstrates the two colors together, as shown by this little unicyclist we saw one day.
About the Colors of Pink and Red
According to various sources, shades of red are associated with a variety of elements, from blood, fire, and rage, to love, passion, and courage.
“In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.” – Taylor Swift.
The color pink, on the other hand, is associated with love and femaleness, tranquility, and kindness.
“My parents told me I’d point to a bed of flowers and say ‘Pink. Pretty,’ before I knew any other words.”- Joni Mitchell
Pink and Red in Nature
Even during the somewhat dreary month of February (at least in the northern latitudes of the northern hemisphere), the colors of pink and red make an appearance in nature.
Weather
The sunrises are inspiring in shades of pink!
“Pink is a beautiful color because it is one of the colors that the sun makes at twilight and in the dawns.” – C. Joybell C
Sunsets, too, with some red thrown in for good measure!
Tree Blooms
“I like pink…It’s just red’s sorry, weak cousin.” ― Beth Fantaskey
In Northern California, pale pink almond tree blooms and rosey quince made their appearance just in time for Valentine’s Day.
I still miss February’s arrival in early spring after seeing the blooms for over 40 years in Sacramento. It will be May before we see dogwoods in bloom where we live now:
For now, I will enjoy my Valentine’s Bouquet ❤️
“Where there is love, there is life.” ~ Mahatma Ghandi
Can Rocks be Pink and Red?
Antelope Canyon is carved into the Navajo sandstone, a sedimentary rock formation that dates back to the Jurassic period. The sandstone is known for its vibrant red and orange colors, which are intensified by the sunlight filtering through the narrow openings above. ~ Geology Science
Once again, the red rocks of Antelope Canyon cry out to be seen in another post. The winter sunlight adds an ethereal color effect to the canyon walls showing off shades of pink and rose.
Walking on pink sand is kind of amazing.
Seeing Red with WordPress
Thank you for sharing your experiences last week with the issues many of us are having with comments. I discovered a WordPress Meet-Up scheduled in Spokane, WA last Wednesday. I attended with the promise to readers I would ask for his assistance. There were only three of us including the meeting coordinator, who is a website developer. He deals mostly with WordPress dot org and knew very little about the anonymous comment issues we’ve experienced.
My encounter with the Happiness Engineers yielded nothing helpful. Three different engineers made suggestions including logging into your WP account on your desktop and/or laptop, re-launching the Jetpack App, or changing the blog’s theme. Some bloggers are still using the Classic editor instead of the block editor. If you encounter problems leaving comments that come up as anonymous or see anonymous comments on your post, or you are continually prompted to log in whether via the Jetpack app or on your computer, try those suggestions.
Other bloggers, Colleen Chesebro and Hugh Roberts are continually communicating with WordPress about these issues and more.
Inspiring Photo Challenges This Week
Each week I find inspiration from my fellow bloggers’ photo challenges. I enjoy incorporating these into my Sunday Stills weekly themes.
- Cee’s Flower of the Day
- Johnbo’s CellPic Sunday
- Lens-Artists: Weather
- Marsha’s Wednesday Quotes: Weather Inspires
Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders
The Sunday Stills weekly-themed photo challenge is easy to join. You have all week to share and link your post. If you choose to link to Sunday Stills, please also leave a comment on my post.
- Remember to title your blog post a little differently than mine.
- Please create a new post for the theme or link a recent one.
- Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
- Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
- Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
- I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.
This Week’s Featured Bloggers
Sunday Stills is a wonderful community of bloggers, poets, artists, and photographers who desire to connect with one another. Below are this week’s links from bloggers who shared their photos of the various shades of RED and PINK. I add these all week as new links are posted.
- YOUR BLOG’S NAME GOES HERE…
- Always Write
- Between the Lines
- Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- Cee’s Photo Challenge
- The Day After
- Deb’s World
- The Dog Lady’s Den
- Graham’s Island
- Light Words
- Loving Life
- The New 3 Rs
- Now at Home
- Peaceful at Dawn
- Quaint Revival
- Roberta Writes
- The Showers of Blessings
- Stevie Turner
- ThreeSixFive Snap
- Two Trails One Road
- Walkin’ Writin’ Wit & Whimsy
- Woolly Muses
- Working on Exploring
- A Young Retirement
I can’t wait to see how you interpret the various shades of PINK and/or RED this week! Join me next week as we explore “iconic places and spaces.”
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