Color

 

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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.   A concrete poem by Michael P. Garofalo.

 

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. 

 

 

              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colors in the Garden and Country
A Month by Month Guide

Zone 8a
Vancouver, Washington, USA, 98662
 

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

 

 

 

 

Gardening Information

Vancouver, Washington, USA, Zip Code: 98662

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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