Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge - Orange Is the Happiest Color

The Sunday Stills monthly color photo challenge is focused on orange this week. And more specifically the orange shades that are called by the name of another fruit, apricot. 

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow. ~Wassily Kandinksy

My collection of photos featuring orange or apricot subjects includes:

Monarch butterflies. And orange lantana flowers.

Pumpkins, of course!

Flowers (lilies, Gerbera daisy, Mexican sunflower, bird of paradise)

A sunrise and a sunset. One of each, although arguably almost every sunset photo has a color pallette that features plenty of orange, and a lot of sunrise photos do as well.

I wish I had a better photo, but the Baltimore oriole is orange.

And as I was searching I found this photo of a dark grey house with an apricot door. It's not just any house - this is the house I grew up in. It wasn't this color at all when I lived there. When we visited Calgary three years ago, we drove through my childhood neighborhood and my old home was one of the few original houses still on the street and I love the updates the new owners have made that can be seen from the outside. 

Orange is the happiest color. ~Frank Sinatra

This post is shared at Second Wind Leisure Perspectives for the #SundayStills Photo Challenge.

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