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 fertile soil that sustains growth and nourishment; the color of plowed earth, buckskin and rawhide, weathered redwood, bison and mustang, frontier land-rugged and outdoorsy. It is pinecone and bracken, chipmunk and acorn, beaver and doe, and all other manner of woodland inhabitants. Even in its more sumptuous state of fine suede and supple kid leather, brown is considered a classic shade of solid substance.
Even though I love bright colors, I love the warmth of brown!
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1. Coffee
2. Halle's nose
3. A feather
4. Honey roasted cashews (I bet you thought they were donuts!)
5. Peppercorns
6. A cork on a bottle of wine
7. Molasses dripping off of a spoon
8. Milk bone dog biscuit
9. A woven basket
10. A dried leaf
My favorite is the drip off the spoon! That is cool. How did you get that photo? Did you have a helper?
ReplyDeleteAlso....I love Halle's nose :)