Jack-in-the-pulpit; onyx; yellow sapphire; Pantone® 14-0848 (mimosas!); Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.
It says something that it’s only now as this blog-thing celebrates its seventh year that I’ve figured out how convenient it can be to post-date entries—so that I write them whenever it’s convenient (or whenever I actually think of them), but they appear whenever I actually want them to appear.
The requisite link to the first post.
The colors of the seventh anniversary are, apparently, yellow and off-white, which makes for an appealing synchronicity with Pantone’s choice of color of the year: a “warm, engaging yellow” they named Mimosa. “In a time of economic uncertainty and political change,” they say, “optimism is paramount and no other color expresses hope and reassurance more than yellow.” And they are the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries! Says so on the label. So fret not about the folk wisdom that says yellow walls make kids twitchy and loud.
Seven’s traditional gifts are copper and wool; the modern gift is a desk set, which it seems can be combined with one of my preferences such as golf or collecting. Hmm. Golf aside, I think I’m going to like this year better than previously reported. —It’s suggested I watch The Desk Set: what night’s good for you, O Spouse?
HM loves that movie, better than State of the Union and Adam’s Rib and Pat and Mike, even.
Happy anniversary.