Vision, Seeing, Looking Five Senses
Spirit of Gardening Cloud Hands Blog Good Life Text Art
By Michael P. Garofalo
Quotations
“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk
over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed
grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish
mysteries.”
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those
which love color the most.”
- John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied
with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. ”
- Oscar Wilde
"Color is a power that directly influences the
soul."
- Wassily Kandinsky
"Each day has a color, a smell."
- Chitra Divakaruni
"Colors speak all languages."
- Joseph Addison
"I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested
in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in
expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on."
- Mark Rothko
"Life is like a box of crayons.
- John Mayer
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other,
sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to
paint.”
- Pablo Picasso
"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let
me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
- Khalil Gibran
Color of Three by Mike Garofalo
Bibliography, Links, References, Notes
On Color, By David Kastan and Stephen Farthing, Yale University Press, 2018, 272 pages.
The Secret Languag of Color: Science,
Nature, History, Culture, and the Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and
Violet. By Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut, Black Dog and Leventhal,
2013, 240 pages.
By Karen and Michael Garofalo
A 2020 Project
January (Average 33F low, 46F high, 6" Rain)
Blue-Purple Rosemary
Red
Yellow
February (Average 35F low, 50F high, 4.99" Rain)
White - Narcissus
Yellow
March (Average 37F low, 56F high, 4.38" Rain)
Red:
Yellow:
White: Pyracantha
April (Average: 40F low, 60F high, 3.28" Rain)
Red
Yellow
May (Average: 45F low, 67F high, 2.67" Rain)
Red
Yellow
June (June Average: 50F low, 72F high, 1.88" Rain)
Red, Yellow, White, Other Colors: Roses
July (July Average: 53F low, 79F high, .8" Rain)
Red, Yellow, White, Other Colors: Roses
August (August Average: 57F low, 82F high, .5" Rain
Red, Yellow, White, Other Colors: Roses
September (September Average: 49F low, 75F high, 1.91" Rain)
Red
Yellow
October (October Average: 42F low, 64F high, 3.41" Rain)
Red
Yellow
November (November Average: 38F low, 52F high, 6.49" Rain)
Red
Yellow
December (December Average: 34F low, 46F high, 6.68" Rain)
Red and Orange - Pyracantha berries
Blue and Purple - Rosemary
Red - Poinsetta
1990 Hardiness Zone: Zone 8a: 10F to 15F
Average First Frost: October 21 - 31
Average Last Frost: April 1 - 10
Koppen-Geiger Climate Zone: Csb - Warm-Summer Mediterranean Climate
Ecoregion: 3a - Portland Vancouver Basin
Palmer Drought Index: Extremely Moist
Average Annual Rainfall: 43.55 inches
Heat Zone Days: Rare Over 86F
Elevation: 171 feet above the Pacific Ocean
General Geography:
The Pacific Ocean and Astoria, Oregon, is 100
miles to the West from Vancouver
The south side of the City of Vancouver is the Columbia River, and across
the river is Portland, Oregon
The Cascade range is to the East.
Seattle is 165 miles to the north, and 105 miles to the north is Olympia,
and Mt. St. Helens is 45 miles to the north.
January Average: 33F low, 46F high, 6" Rain
February Average: 35F low, 50F high, 4.99" Rain
March Average: 37F low, 56F high, 4.38" Rain
April Average: 40F low, 60F high, 3.28" Rain
May Average: 45F low, 67F high, 2.67" Rain
June Average: 50F low, 72F high, 1.88" Rain
July Average: 53F low, 79F high, .8" Rain
August Average: 57F low, 82F high, .5" Rain
September Average: 49F low, 75F high, 1.91" Rain
October Average: 42F low, 64F high, 3.41" Rain
November Average: 38F low, 52F high, 6.49" Rain
December Average: 34F low, 46F high, 6.68" Rain
Yearly Averages: 42F low, 62F high, 43.55" Rain
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This hypertext document was first distributed online in October of 2004.
This document was last updated, modified, reformatted, edited, or updated on December 6, 2019.
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