All the colours of 2024

All the colours of 2024. What did I do with them?

January - Clay brown: Frosty leaves, mostly beech

February: Our Graphite Black earth is bringing forth colour - and is a terrific backdrop.

The colour of March, Olive green, is found in these catkins.

I'm sure you can find loads of April's Water blue in GardenOwl if you look close.

And a Bright orange flower for the Colour of the month, May. Growing on my Moon Hill, a survivor from last summer's sowing of all my flower seeds I have no idea what it is, and orange is probably the colour it is hardest to find in the Owlery.

The very best mint is Signal green for June.

Look! some of the nasturtium I picked for jellies and herbal salts have just the right colour for July's Pale ivory.

August is in need of two photos: 

August is THE summer month of Denmark, but ususally it looked like this - lots of Mouse grey around.

But it is not a bad colour when others come along to brighten up things.

In September we ate the very first bite of the very first ripe jalapeño.
It was the deep Orient red of September

In October I was lucky. The camera was in my bag and the cormorant had returned to the pond in town. The stone, which is the base for the water-spouting frog, is naturally Pebble grey.

November saw a lot of plant dyeing, eco printing, contact printing or what ever it is called.
And the colour of the month, Pearl opal green, was eaily found here.

In December this mug turned out just the right Light blue.

With this colourful cavalcade through 2024, MotherOwl is ready to jump into 2025.

The first colour of 2025
the year of the
snake

is:

Colour24 :: Sunday Selection

For the last time this year a colourful Sunday post.
The Colour of the Month for December is

Sidste Månedens farve for i år. Her er decembers farve.

Og her nogle billeder -- And some photos

Oops, those chopsticks are light BLUE not green in real life.

Altså, de spisepinde er lyseblå i virkeligheden!

This mug turned out just right.

Men det her krus er mere fotogent.

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JUBELÅRET 2025 - HÅBETS PILGRIMME.
I dag var der jubelårsåbningsmesse i domkirken.

Today we attended the inauguration mass of the Holy year
JUBILEE 2025 - PILGRIMS OF HOPE.

Sunday Selection :: Colour24

The colour for December is

er decembers farve

Og .. tja der er ikke meget, der har den farve lige nu. Himlen er grå, julepynt for det meste rød, hvid eller gylden. Men det fine glas-juletræ, der var dagens ting i vores adventskalender i går, rammer nok ret godt. Rimen er for længst væk igen, og har veget pladsen for den normale decemberregn. 

-- 💙 --

Not much around us has this pretty blue right now - the skies are grey and all ornaments are mostly red, white or golden. But this one, yesterday's advent ornament, fits the bill. The hoarfrost has long gone, and given way to more rain.

Og så tegner jeg stadig. I september fandt jeg 365 days of Drawing Prompts, en gruppe på Facebook med et stikord til hver dag og en sød, meget aktiv og ikke specielt striks ledelse. Det passer mig fint. Jeg får ikke lagt så mange tegninger op, som jeg kunne ønske, men nu har jeg i hvert fald både stikord og gruppe igen efter showet med SDD ... suk!
     Dagens stikord er Cocktail. Og sådan én kan jo godt være blå.  

-- 💙 --

And I'm still drawing, not as much or indeed as often as I would like. Back in September I found a new group, 365 days of drawing prompts, on Facebook. It is a very active, not judging, not praising overmuch group, but now I again have both prompts and a place to post after the sorry end of SDD. Sigh.

Today's prompt was Cocktail. This can be done in blue.

Colour25 ... A new Idea

I am going to continue with the colour challenge - now Colour25 - next year, but I have an idea ... Sometimes, on your blogs I see photos with a colour I really find stunning. Could I have your permission to show these photots here (no persons, full credits), with a coloured square, colour code and name and the blog from where the colour was taken.
Then I could maybe name the colour, or I could ask for a name ... Let me show you what I mean:

Colour of the Month :: December

And we're ending the year on a cheerful note - at least in my opinion. I love blue, and this Light Blue is like the sky on a clear, frosty day.

Sikke da en optimistisk farve for årets sidste måned. Jeg elsker blå, og denne lyseblå er som himlen en frostklar decemberdag.

Fires at Unicorn Farm ~ Part 3

Encouraged by Elephant's Child I sat myself down and wrote the last of the story. I am a stickler for happy endings, and this shows here.
And as I used my colour Opal Pearl Green throughout this story I'll make it count for Colour24 as well

The magicians and apprentices sat around the table in the barn, all singed, smelling of smoke and damp clothing, but all very happy. The reason for the fires had not been a pyromaniac wizard or witch after all, Taavi told a long-winded story of one pyromaniac who ended up as a very good person, but nobody really listened.
Suddenly Tage raised his head and blurted out: "How did Kalle end up here!" He looked at Taavi, who gave him a stink eye. "Oh, sorry Taavi, I did not mean to interrupt," he added, I was just thinking ..."
"Or not," Taavi said. "Excuse accepted. And you pose a relevant question. Let's ask Kalle once again, what happened?"
"Yes ..." Kalle began. "I was asleep, as well I should be, at home in my own bed in Stockholm. Then I remember dreaming of a giant, shimmering opal green crocolisk eating up someone I did not recognize, wrapped up like a giant spring roll or something. I was afraid. I wondered what to do. Then I felt an almighty pulling sensation ... and I awoke in the middle of the corridor, my PJs on fire and Gilvi dousing me with water."
"You were afraid, and wondered what to do with a giant crocolisk!" Jon said slowly "... I think I know what happened." He looked at all the other magicians and apprentices at the table. "Now think. If you saw a humongous, shimmering green crocolisk - and a man-eating one even, what would you do?"
"Run," Tage said.
"Get mum and dad!" Heidi suggested.
"I'd go to ..." Susan began, then gasped, "... to the library!" she ended softly.
"Exactly!" Jon exclaimed, his white teeth showing in a big smile. "And that's what Kalle did. He sleep'ported here! Well done young man. You will probably have no trouble passing the teleportation test this term."
Kalle smiled a huge smile. "Oh I've been so afraid of flunking that test. All my cousins except for Britta who's the youngest, passed the test last term, and they have been teasing Anna and me relentlessly ever since."
"But I'll have to cast a spell on you to prevent repetitions. Just imagine you trying to slep'port to some imaginary place."
Kalle turned white and whispered: "Oh yes, please do. Even some real life places would not be that nice."

Sunday Selection :: Eco-printing 2

Sunday a new trial run of Eco-printing on paper happened. This time one last alum mordanted sheet and two of the new ones mordanted with Aluminium Acetate (henceforth AA). I do not think the  differences are striking. Resulting prints to follow tomorrow in daylight.

-- 🍂 --

Søndag måtte jeg bare teste de nybejdsede ark med aluminiumacetat (AA) og det sidste alunbejdsede. Jeg synes ikke, forskellene er slående, men vi får se i morgen i dagslys.

Last of the Alum sheets (Alum 5), testing new and old leaves.

-- 🍃 --

Alun 5, det sidste alunbejdsede ark. En test af nye og gamle blade.

And the two first AA ones - confusingly labelled AA 5 & 6. I happened to turn the bunch of papers upside down - testing many of the same leaves as Alum 5, and some from Alum 1 - 4.

-- 🍁 --

Og de to første ark med AA - de er mærket AA 5&6 fordi jeg kom til at vende bundtet på hovedet - det er mange af de samme blade som Alun 5 og et par gengangere fra Alun 1-4.

-- 🍂 --

All these leaves surely contains at least some of the Colour of November: Pearl opal green

Og mon ikke bladene rammer månedes farve med det skønne navn perleopalgrøn.

-- 🍂🍃🍁 --

And oops, I forgot to press "Publish" before finding my bed.
Upsi, jeg fik ikke trykket på "Udgiv", inden jeg skyndte mig i seng.

Colour of the Month ~ November

Er det ikke bare et vidunderligt navn på en farve - Perle-opalgrøn. Jeg bliver da nødt til at finde noget, der har lige den farve til på søndag.

Isn't this just a wonderful name for a colour?I just hae to find something of this exact colour for this Sunday.

Sunday Selection ~ Søndagsbilleder :: Colour2024 :: 001

Forleden dag så jeg endelig nummer 003 - og den holdt stille, så jeg kunne tage et billede af dens stengrå ynder.

~ ~ ~

Finally I found 003 - and it was parked, so that I could snap its Pebble grey curves.

Shopping while visiting my mother I found Habakuk all dressed up for Halloween. I just had to bring him home.

~ ~ ~

Da vi besøgte min mor i torsdags var vi på indkøb. Der fandt jeg altså Habakuk, der var trukket i halloween-tøjet. Han måtte bare med hjem.

Min Habakuk ~ My Habakuk

Sunday Selection & Colour of the Month ~ Pebble Grey

Oktober måneds farve er "Pebble grey". Jeg oversætter det som stengrå.

1. Måger der flyver med sol på vingerne - de gennemlyste vingekanter er stengrå.

Not "Wild geese that fly / with the moon on their wings" but gulls that fly with the sun on their wings, making the edges of the wings light up in pebble grey.

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En hemmelig have i en bog. Det var en del af en vinduesudstilling, da jeg var på indkøb i onsdags.

A secret garden in a book. I saw this in a window, as I went shopping last Wednesday.

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Jeg fandt også dette pindsvin. Den slags bogfoldning kan jeg godt lide. Og der er helt sikkert noget stengråt over pindsvinet her.

I also saw this hedgie. As I have a soft spot for book folding, I had to snap him. And I'm sure there's some pebble grey hidden in his folds.

- -- 🩶 -- -

Endelig havde jeg heldet med mig. Kameraet lå i lommen, og min skarv stod på frøen i gadekæret. Stenen, frøen sidder på, er naturligvis stengrå.

At long last I was lucky. The camera was not at home and the cormorant had returned to the pond in town. The stone, which is the base for the water-spouting frog, is naturally pebble grey.

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And I realize that I never showed my lousy phone picture of the cormorant. Well here you are.

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Og jeg viste aldrig billedet af skarven fra min mobil. Det er altså også elendigt, men værsågod.

Lousy quality, but still recognizable as a cormorant -- Elendig kvalitet men genkendelig som skarv.

- -- 🩶 -- -

En lille sjat overset gelé var mugnet og råbte ad os - naturligvis i stengrå.

We forgot this jelly for a few days. It is screaming at us in mouldy pebble grey.

- -- 🩶 -- -

Et par valnødder fra vores have. De er helt friske og lækre nu.

We have a walnut tree in our garden. The walnuts are at their best right now.

- -- 🩶 -- -

Jeg købte nogle druer, og har aldrig set så lang en klase før. Døren kan nok siges at være stengrå, selv om det korrekte navn er modehvid.

I bought a very long bunch of grapes - our door is almost  pebble grey.

Sunday Selection & Colour of the Month

Ikke meget tekst - kun to billeder
Not much text - and just two photos

Hvid raps, glimmerbøsserne kan ikke se de hvide blomster.
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White canola, the pests can't see the white flowers.
With a small effort it can be seen as Pebble grey - the Colour of October.

Ravgul slørhat (Cortinarius tofaceus) Amber-hued webcap

The name is my invention; as this mushroom seems to have no English name I translated the Danish one, it fits, I think.

Colour of the Month ~ October

The colour for October is

Månedens farve for oktober er

Colour24 & Sunday Selections

My harvest from the greenhouse. The eggplants are very small, on the other hand those are my very first egplants ever.

I see some ORIENT RED - the Colour of the Month - in those tomatoes and the bell pepper.

Sunday Selection

On the apple tree Pirate loved, we had very few apples. First I saw only one, then later on we found three more. Tw were rotten, Pirate ate the last one.
Then this morning, as I looked out from our bedroom window I saw a red apple on that tree. I went there, fully expecting either yet another rotten apple or it to be in some hard to reach place. But no - I stretched out my hand and picked the apple for Pirate to eat. It had eluded us all for several days of looking for apples.

And I'm suresome ORIENT RED - the Colour of the Month - is to be found in the photo of the elusive apple.

Sunday Selection, Colour24 & Bathroom EntomologySøndagsbilleder, Månedens farve & Badeværelsesentomologi

Først - for alle, der ikke vil se billeder af edderkopper og insekter, kommer månedens farve

For everybody not wanting to see spiders ... Colour of the Month.

Today we ate the very first bite of the very first ripe jalapeño.

-- 🌶 --

I dag spiste vi den første bid af den første modne jalapeño.

-- ENTOMOLOGY -- ENTOMOLOGI --

  I'm sorry, but entomology is not the study of ents - even if this would be a subject I would really like to study, I doubt even a single ent would fit into our tiny bathroom. Entomology is - as most of you probably know - the study of insects, spiders and such - in short bugology.

-- 🪲 -- 🕷 --

     Entomologi er desværre ikke ente-studier. Selvom det er en slags studier jeg gerne ville bedrive, tvivler jeg på at der ville være plads til bare en enkelt, lillebitte ente på vores ikke særligt store badeværelse.
     Nej, entomologi er - som de fleste sikkert ved - studiet af insekter, edderkopper og den slags.

-- 🕷 -- 🕸 -- 🕷 --

Some entomologic photos from our bathroom - no, I do not know why all bugs congregate there.

-- 🕷 -- 🪲 --

     Her er et par entomologiske billeder fra badeværelset. Gad vide hvorfor alle insekter og edderkopper godt kan lide at være der?

A pretty moth, probably Common carpet --  🦋  -- En fin natsværmer, nok en Almindelig bladmåler.

A lady Marsh cranefly, notice the pointy end -- 🪰 --  et hun-stankelben, det kan man se på den spidse ende.

And finally another spider. It is the same species as my itsy bitsy spider - a Walnut orb spider - but much smaller, probably a male one, and with distinctly hairy black and white banded legs.

-- 🕷 -- 🕸 -- 🕷 --

Og til sidst endu en edderkop. Den er af samme art som Lille Peter, en flad hjulspinder, men meget minder, så det er nok en han, og med meget fint stribede og behårede ben.

 -- 🕸 --

Ekstra, her til morgen var der denne edderkop på badeværeslet. Den tilhører helt sikkert slægten Halloween-edderkopper. Gad vide, hvor den er kommet fra.

-- 🕷 -- 🕸 -- 🕷 --

And this morning, I found this pretty specimen on the sink. It belongs to the Halloween spiders, I'm sure, and I wonder, how it got there, and where it has been hiding.