Photos taken on my phone for Jennifer’s One Word Photo Challenge: Chartreuse
I had no idea Chartreuse was yellow-green, until this challenge. It sounded like a red, crimson purple to me! Found on my walk this morning – a grey day, cool, but no frost this morning.
Moss
The flowers on this succulent will open a pretty yellow, but at the moment they qualify for yellow-green.
Since posting this, I have discovered that the colour originates from a liqueur made in the Chartreuse Mountains at the Grande Chartreuse monastery, in France, by Carthusian Monks – from a recipe given them in 1605. The name first used as a colour in 1884. Check out Wikipedia.
from Wikipedia
Christine R 
Lovely, makes everything look so fresh and clean
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You are obviously not a drinker of after-dinner spirits … how commendable of you ! 😀
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Don’t you worry M-R, I’ve put away enough alcohol in my lifetime already to do me! Anything that colour would be wicked.
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Chartreuse is not all that bad. You must give it a try, one day. 😀
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I shall M-R.
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Beautiful photos!
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Thanks Barbara.
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I always thought the same. How odd. People really should name things in such a fashion as to sound as they are, don’t you think?
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Well, Mosy, since M-R’s enlightening remark, I’ve found that Chartreuse the liqueur came first, before it was given as a name for the colour nearly a couple of hundred years later. 😀
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It’s a colour named after alcohol? Made by monks? I think it just became my new favourite colour…
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This is my favorite color, especially for the garden!
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I can’t say I had noticed it especially before. Now I see it everywhere, Cady.
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Lovely contributions. Still amazes me how many colors you can find in nature! Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
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Thanks Jennifer.
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