One Word Photo Challenge: Chartreuse

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.

ch flower

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

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One Word Photo Challenge: Bronze

This weeks photo for Jennifer’s One Word Photo Challenge: Bronze

Statue of ‘Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell in the grounds of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia.

Daniel O’Connell was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century. He campaigned for Catholic Emancipation and our local Irish population appreciated his actions.

This statue, cast in Belgium,was originally erected in front of the cathedral in 1891, but was later moved to make way for the statue of an Archbishop. (Taken with my FujiFilm Finepix A607 in 2012.)

Here is this weeks photo, taken on the Fujifilm Finepix A607, for Jennifer’s challenge

This is Silver Arch and I think he was named after a real race horse. Dad brought him home from a show when I was an infant. I always considered him mine. Now, I could have taken a new photo, but I like this one which shows what my bookshelf is likely to look like on any given day. The bookshelf has been pulled apart and reconstructed several times since I first built it, but only painted the once.