Colorful Life

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Thanks so much for showing the love to my friend Kristin and her blog where she chronicles the life of her family with their 5 biological children and 1 adopted child from Ethiopia!  Your support means the world to her!  And a big thank you to everyone who left such sweet comments about my son's senior prom, he had a wonderful time and I stayed up WAY too late, so Sunday was spent just hanging out and doing a whole lot of nothing!

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Today I am supposed to head out to shoot some houses, some for my blog and some are scouting shots for magazines, but the darn weather isn't cooperating!  It's cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms, and without a bounce flash it's not a great time to be taking indoor photos, especially when the location of the house is as gorgeous as the house itself! 

So instead of bringing you a post on houses today, it looks like all I have to show you are these flower shots that I took last weekend!  I do think that the colors found in nature are amazing and each time I see these vibrant colors it makes me want to paint walls, buy new bedding, or simply accessorize with some of these strong pops of color!  I'm working on re-doing our back patio which is in desperate need of a makeover and I can just see it all decked out (no pun intended) with cushions or an umbrella in some of these fabulous colors!

Color is such a great way to add life to a space.  And drawing from nature's color palette for inspiration is something I try to do as often as possible.  The walls in my kitchen are the color of the water just before a storm, when the wind kicks up and gives it that gray/green hue.  And my living and dining room walls remind me of the sand, while my son's deep green bedroom walls are reminiscent of the lichen on the trees after a good hard rain.

And you don't just have to take your color cues from inanimate objects, check out my neighbor's cat Miss Amy Ann.  I think the soft green of her eyes would be a gorgeous color to use somewhere in my house!

I hope your world is full of sunshine and color today!

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