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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “color/colour.” Use it as a noun, a verb, or pick a color and write about it–use it any way you like. Have fun!
Sometimes the stark contrast of black and white is more effective than colour, though I remember the days of early TV. My parents didn’t have their first colour set until their black and white one couldn’t be repaired which was well into the 1980s.
We always laughed when we said Maggie was a monochrome dog as we couldn’t afford a colour licence, not that there are dog licences now and when there were, it was 7/6d or 37½p. I often wondered why they didn’t reintroduce it at say £10 for the life of the dog as with microchipping, then thought it would probably lead to loads of dogs being dumped or worse and the microchips register dogs and owners anyway for around £20.
Here’s our girl in July 2017 at my niece’s wedding. This is the same picture, one done in greyscale, so if it wasn’t for the coloured bow, you wouldn’t know. Bless her.
Henry Ford said of his cars that you can have any colour you like as long as it’s black.
I used to wear a lot of black, especially in the office, but always used to buy separates to mix and match. However, have you ever noticed how many different shades of black (and navy for that matter) there are in the clothes department, even when they are made by the same designer group. Ha, I remember being mistaken for one of the waiting staff at my cousin’s wedding in 1990 as I was wearing a black skirt with a white blouse.
Back to black and white pictures, and this is something else I greyscaled.
The card was made for my niece in NZ who got married Dec 31st 2017. I had to buy a box of cheap Christmas cards to get a suitable box to protect it in the post!
Ultimate in colour though has to be rainbows, and regular readers know how much I love and photograph rainbows.
I laughed at your comment about your lack of a color license for Maggie. And yes, all the different varieties of black out there are amazing, and people are still claiming black isn’t a color.
Glad to make you smile.
HA! colour licence. Very good.
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Lovely post, love the photos of Maggie 💜💜💜
Bless her, she was so good that day. It was a question of us just going for the service which was in a courtyard then coming home as we couldn’t leave Maggie with anyone so she was an unofficial ‘flower girl’.
She looked stunning 💜
Thanks ❤
I love the description of Maggie as a monochrome dog!
She was beautiful
Had to lol at the dog license joke! I know this is a very old post. I’m going through some older ones. we can still get dog licenses here. I think anyway! XX
I think the ‘licence’ now comes under the guise of a microchip as dogs all have to be chipped now. We had Maggie chipped when she was a pup.