All the Colours of 2025

I feel like it was only a month or so ago that I told of my new idea to find a photo from a blog, mine or yours and show these photos here with a coloured square, colour code and name and the blog from where the colour was taken.It was one of those ideas that seems smart when describing them, but in the long run it became a chore instead of fun.
I am not giving up on the monthly colour, but once again it will be a randomly generated colour.

What did I do in 2025?

The colours were:

And my use of them:

And the colour of January 2026 - Random palettes courtesy of coolors.co

Colour of the Month :: December :: Månedens farve

I had written this, and pre-published it for yesterday evening. Mysteriously it has disappeared insteead of publishing. Strange things happen in the 'web.

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Jeg havde skrevet og planlagt Månedens farve til i går aftes. Men i stedet for at udgive sig selv, synes det at have slettet sig selv. Jeg har ledt, både i slettede opslag og på mine andre blogs, det er bare væk. Så nu prøver jeg igen.

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Already back when I began the year, I had decided on the colour for December, the one that began it all.

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Allerede tilbage i januar havde jeg besluttet mig for december måneds farve, nemlig den, der gav startskuddet til denne serie.

Sunday Selections ~ Søndagsbilleder Dagur íslenskrar tungu

I dag burde jeg skrive mit opslag på islandsk, da det er det islandske sprogs dag, og islandsk, der jo er magiens sprog på Enhjørningegården, altid har haft en stor plads i mit hjerte. Men jeg tror jeg afholder mig, dels ville det nok tage mig resten af dagen, dels ville det nok være så fuldt af fejl, at det ville være næsten ulæseligt.
     Så jeg nøjes med at sige til hamingju með daginn íslenskrar tungu - tillykke med det islandske sprogs dag.

Today, I ought to write my post in Icelandic, as it is Icelandic Language Day, and Icelandic, the language of magic at the Unicorn Farm, has always had a big place in my heart. But I think I'll refrain from doing so, partly because it would take me the rest of today, partly because it would probably be so full of errors that it would be almost unreadable.
So I'll just say til hamingju með daginn íslenskrar tungu - Happy Icelandic Language Day.

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Tilbage i januar 2024, da jeg fik fjernet min galdeblære, spurgte jeg om jeg kunne få stenene med hjem. Jeg havde ingen idé om, hvad jeg ville med dem, hvis jeg fik dem. Jeg fik én, den største, på 2½ x knap 2 cm, resten var for smuldrende ... men der var mange. Lige siden har den ligget i en pose på mit skrivebord, ligget i vejen, er måske det rette ord, for hvad skulle jeg egentlig med den? Jeg ville ikke bare smide den ud. Endelig i går, da det var smukt, klart vejr, og himlen en fortryllende lys himmelblå, plantede jeg en lægealant i et hul ovenpå galdestenen. På engelsk har planten meget sjovere navne, elvertidsel eller heste-helbrederen. Det tiltaler mig, og nu håber jeg på at blive stærk som en hest 😃

Back in January 2024, when I had my gallbladder removed, I asked if I could have the stones. I had no idea what I would do with them if I got them. I got one, the largest, measuring 2½ times just under 2 cm; the rest were too crumbly ... but there were many. Ever since then, it has been lying in a bag on my desk, getting in the way really, because what was I to do with it? I didn't want to just throw it out after all the trouble.
Finally, yesterday, when the weather was beautiful and clear, and the sky was an enchanting light sky blue, I planted a plant in a hole on top of the gallstone. The plant was an elecampane also known as elfdock or horse-heal. I hope to grow healthy as a horse now 😃

Den historie tæller også som månedesn farve Plantekassen øverst til højre er ikke helt ved siden af i hvert fald

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This story also counts towards the colour of the month. The plant container in the upper right corner is not much off.

Sunday Selections ~ Søndagsbilleder ~ Colour25

Månedens farve er jo denne skønne himmelblå. Og vi har set mere til den blå himmel de seneste dage end jeg lige havde regnet med. Jeg glemte bare lige at tage billeder, hvor det kan ses at himlen faktisk er himmelblå.

The colour of November is this lovely blue. We've seen more blue skies than I expected these last days, but I did not focus on photographing the blue sky.

Oh, what a wonderful morning  --  --  𝅘𝅥𝅮♪♩𝆕𝅘𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅮  --  -- Åh, sikken morgen så dejlig
Himlen var BLÅ!  --  The skies were BLUE!

Et fint byt en bog-hus, som jeg mødte på min cykeltur i går. Bogstaverne er i hvert fald blå
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A nice grab a book, leave a book hpuse, I spied while biking yesterday. Nice blue letters.

Local elections coming up. A reminder to vote -- ❌

  -- En valgpåmimndelse til de kommende lokalvalg.

Vores busser er også blå, i hvert fald delvist  -- 🚍 -- Our buses are blue, partially at least.

Sunday Selection :: October ~ November :: Søndagsbilleder

Ja, der er blevet november, men kun lige, derfor indeholder søndagens billeder både

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It is November, but only just. My Sunday selection will contain both

the colour of November, and
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som er novembers farve og

the colour of October.
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som var oktobers farve.

Hønsenes morgenmad lørdag den første november, Alle helgens dag.

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Breakfast for the chickens, All Saint's day, Saturday, November 1.

Besøg på Hvalrossens og Uglemormors grave alle sjæles dag, 2. november. Skildpadden er oldebørnenes idé, for Uglemormor kunne godt lide skildpadder. Den skumle kat i baggrunden er én hun lavede, den får lov til at stå, til den er væk. 

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Visiting the grave of the Walrus and  GrannyOwl on All Soul's day, November 2nd. The turtle is from the grandkids, GrannyOwl liked turtles. The half-melted cat in the background is one she crafted, it's left to melt away.

Solnedgangen i dag, Alle sjæles dag

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Sunset today, All Soul's Day.

November 2025 ~Colour of the Month ~ Månedens farve (Blogtober 30)

While November in my place is a cold, wet and dreary month whit ever shorter days, it's the start of Summer in Australia. I'm going to let Elephant's Child delight us with one of her wonderful flower photos from her last post, Sunday Selections #833, where she once again opened our eyes for the beauty that surrounds us.

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November i Danmark er en trist omgang, regn og mulm og korte dage, men i Australien er det starten på en til tider meget varm sommer.
     Jeg har taget et billede fra Elephant's Childs opslag Sunday Selections 833, hvor hun for sidste gang viste os skønheden omkring sig.

If you need only the colour chart, it's here:

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Hvis man har brug for en lille udgave, er den her:

Sunday Selection ~ Søndagsbillede Morgenfruer ~ Calendula (Blogtober 19)

It's still October, the colour of the month is still the same

Det er stadig oktober, og månedens farve er stadigvæk den samme

Calendula petals have the right colour. Each summer I fill this glass with dried petals to use for soaping and un-petroleum jellies in the coming year.

Morgenfruekronblade er lige præcis den orange farve. Jeg fylder gerne det her glas med morgenfruekronblade hver sommer, så jeg har til sæber og salver i det kommende år.

I think I showed off this glass before. When we lived in Germany (Salzgitter-Osterlinde) for a year, there was a grocery store in our smallish town, Frau Deich's shop. She closed down some monthes later, selling out everything, and I bought this glass, that had been the home of Knorr stock powder in the shop.

Jeg har vist vist det her glas frem før. Dengang vi boede i Tyskland (Osterlinde) var der en købmandsbutik i vores landsby, da vi ankom. Frau Deich, som hun hed, lukkede sin butik ud på efteråret, og jeg købte det her glas, der engang har indeholdt Knorr bouillonpulver i løs vægt.

Elephant's Child once again Sunday Selections ~ Søndagsbillede

This might very well be the strangest Sunday Selection I ever posted. But I'd like you to know, and I think Elephant's Child would agree.

Tomorrow, Monday 13th at 12 o'clock Canberra time Sue Goldberg, whom to most of us was known as Elephant's Child will be buried. Her burial will be livestreamed, see the link is below the obituary.

Please note that 12 o'clock Monday Canberra time is:
3.00 (3 am) Monday Paris time - my time, I won't join.
21.00 (9 pm) Sunday New York time
22.30 (10.30 pm) Sunday Newfoundland time.

Actually if you click the link, it will tell you when it is in your own time, that's quite helpful.

Sue's Funeral livestream LINK

Seeing Sue's birthday gave me a shock. She was only three years older than me!

And I do not know if this is blasphemous, inappropriate or a last nod from Elephant's Child to us, but the flower in her obituary also contains

Trying to enjoy Autumn ~ Forsøg på at nyde efteråret (Blogtober 9)

Blogtober og efterår.
     Jeg vil forsøge at bringe et positivt efterårsbillede hver dag, hvor der ikke foregår andet her på bloggen, For jeg har det altså stramt med efterår og kortere dage. I år prøver jeg virkelig på at kunne lide efteråret.
     Forleden fandt jeg denne her løber. Den skal bruges!

Blogtober and Autunm.

Every day where nothing else - like Poetry Monday, Words for Wednesday, or Sunday Selections - is happening on my blog, I am hopefully going to post a positive photo and text. This is hard, as I really do not like Autumn and shorter days. I'll try to stay positive and "hygge" this time around.

Some days ago I found this table runner in a second hand shop. I'll use it!

Og de er så lidt Månedens farve over det også ~~ Even matching the Colour of the month.

Søndagsbillede ~ Sunday Selection (Blogtober 5)

Dagens billede tog jeg i forgårs, mens det stadig var klart vejr. Det er en havebrøndsel. Den er i familie med skønhedsøjerne, og man kan også bruge den til farveplante ... eller bare til pynt, for den er da flot. Jeg håber, den er vinterhårdfør, og den skal nok komme ind i vores nye skur sammen med yuzu, laurbær og de andre sarte væsener. Og så dekreterer jeg at den passer til månedens farve: Græskar-orange.

This is a Beggarticks, a fern-leaved beggarticks even. It is a distant cousin of the tickseed family and can be used as a dye - or like here for ornamental purposes, it sure looks the part.
I hope it will survive the winter, and it will be placed in the new shed together with yuzu, bay laurel, and other non hardy types as soon as frost is closer.
And I declare that it fits the colour of the month; Pumpkin orange.

Beauty Berry ~ Skønhedsbærlilla

Nu er det den sidste søndag i september, og mit kamera er vist ved at stå af, for lige meget hvad jeg tager billeder af, er det lidt ude af fokus og altså lidt sløret.
     Men ... lige siden vi boede et år i Tyskland har jeg prøvet at lave den perfekte Pflaumenmus - det kan man bare ikke. Så hver gang nogen, jeg kender, er i Tyskland, er der en tre-fire varer, jeg beder dem om at købe med hjem. En af dem er netop Pflaumenmus, og allerhelst af mærket Ja!
     Og det glas en af Ugleungerne have de med hjem, havde fået nyt låg. I stedet for de hvide, jeg huskede, havde det månedens farve. To fluer med et  - sløret - smæk

Now it's the last Sunday of September, and my camera seems to be on its last legs, because no matter what I take pictures of, the subject is out of focus, something isn't right.

But... ever since we lived in Germany for a year, I've been trying to make the perfect Pflaumenmus – it's just not possible. So every time someone I know is going to Germany, this is one of the three or four items I ask them to bring back. Preferably of the Ja! brand.

And the glass of Pflaumenmus that one of the Owlets brought home had a new lid. Instead of the lid being white as I remembered, it had the colour of the month. Two birds with one – blurred – stone.

Søndagsbilleder ~ Sunday Selection & Colour25

Today I get to use the Beauty Berry colour. I have a few misses, and then a hit ;)

I dag skal jeg så forsøge at finde glasbær-lilla som månedensfarve. Jeg har et par gode forbiere, og forhåbentlig rammer jeg også.

Først en blomst, der pludselig groede på nogle sjove, lange ukrudter, jeg havde ladet stå uden for vores skur. Det er bukketorn, hvor bærrene er de meget sunde goji-bær - jeg troede det var et eller andet eksotisk, altså.
Næsten den rigtige farve.

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First a flower from a long, straggly weed I let live in front of the shed. It is matrimony vine, which I find a fun name, and the berries are the much touted goji-berries - I thought they were some tropical tree fruits.
Almost the right colour

En lille omvej til i går, hvor jeg demonstrerede plantefarvning. Først de planet, jeg plukkede på en tur i min have samme morgen: Rødbladet hassel, skønhedsøjer, rejnfan - og i kurvens dyb, grønne valnødder.

A small detour to yesterday where I showed how to plant dye. A basket full of dye-plants from my garden: Red hazel, tansy, tickseed and green walnuts (inside the basket)

The yarn I dyed -- det garn, jeg farvede.

Og så en gentagelse: Det garn, der mindede mig om lakridskonfetti. Jeg fandt noget på indkøb forleden. Ligner det ikke? Og så fandt jeg det på nettet: Bedre billede.

And a repeat: The hank of yarn reminding me of a Danish brand of candy. Down below the candy - I'll let you be the judge. And then I found it online: Better picture.

Og til sidst, mit sære møbius-strik. Jeg forsøger at lære italiensk aflukning, men havde skrevet forkert af, så det ser stadig sådan her ud .. og det rammer farven!

And finally my strange moebius knit. I'm trying to teach myself Italian bind off, but as I made a mistake copying the how-to, I've still not gotten any longer that last time ... but it fits the colour!

Sunday Selection Søndagsbilleder

I dag har jeg noget meget kulørt garn at vise frem. Først mindede farverne i nøglet mig om påfuglefjer.

Today's photos feature a very colourful hank of yarn. At first it reminded me of peacock's feathers.

Så om lakridskonfetti

And then about a Danish brand of candy which strangely does not pop up in a web-search.

Og jeg strikkede sådan her, til stor forundring for Ugleungerne, der mente, at der var noget galt med mit strikketøj.

And I knit like this, to the astonishment of the Owlets who were sure I did something wrong.

Der er ikke noget galt, det skal se så sært ud - bortset fra et par mindre fejl. Jeg øver mig i at strikke Møbiusting.

But it is as it should be - apart from some minor errors. I'm teaching myself to knit a Moebiusband.

Jeg er ikke helt sikker på at der er noget strågult i dette garn, selvom det jo er sidste chance i dag.

I'm not sure there's any Straw golden in this hank, even if today was my last shot at this colour.

Colour of the Month :: September :: Månedens farve

I know, I know, we only recently had a purple, but, well, I tried no less than two random colour generators after seeing this photo, and they both gave me a violet. I can't fight the superior force. I suggest Beauty Berry Violet as the colour for September. It is taken from Mary's blogpost on these berries and a whole lot of other stuff.
Beauty berries is also a plant, I have wanted to have in my garden. I had forgotten it, also because I thougth it was highly poisonous, which it is not - let the Beauty berry hunt begin!

     Jeg ved godt, at vi lige har haft en lilla i juli. Jeg prøvede at finde en anden farve, men efter at ikke mindre end to "find en tilfældig farve" websteder havde givet mig en lilla, gav jeg op og accepterede Glasbær - som på botanisk latin, Callicarpa, og engelsk, Beauty Berry, hedder smukke bær - som månedens farve for september.
     Jeg fandt de smukke bær og en hel del andet hos Mary. Det er også en af de planter, jeg altid har ønsket mig at have i haven, men som jeg faktisk havde glemt. Nu må jeg på jagt.

Sunday Selections ~ Second Sunday of August ~ Barn QuiltSøndagsbilleder ~ 2. søndag i august ~ Barn quilt

For nogle uger siden fortalte jeg, at jeg ville lave et Barn quilt til vores nye udhus.

Pladen til at male på, er basis for puslespillet her, så skulle den lige males hvid ... det glemte jeg så at tage billeder af ...

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Some weeks ago I told about my plan to make a barn quilt.

The board is shown here, it's below the puzzle pieces.  Then I had to paint it white -- I forgot to snap a photo of this it seems ...

Næste forhindring var så at købe maling i de rigtige farver, og en rulle malertape.

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The next hurdle was getting some paints in the right colours and some painters' tape.

Then painting began -- 🙨 --  Så begyndte jeg at male

Rigtig mange streger, virkelig meget malertape, og første lag maling!

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A lot of marking up, many metres of painters' tape and the first coat of paint!

And the sun is shining still  -- 🙨 --  Solen skinner stadig

 

     Andet lag maling, det er stadig vådt, og al tapen straks fjernes igen - internettet vidste heldigvis besked, for manden i butikken sagde ikke noget - jeg skulle nok have spurgt.
     Det ligner da patchwork, ikke sandt?

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Second coat of paint, still wet, and all the painter's tape removed right after - I looked it up on the 'net, as I did not know, and the man in the shop did not tell me - I probably should have asked.
  It does look a bit like a quilt, don't you think?

Nu mangler der bare "blomsterne" en firkant i hvert af hjørnerne - og de skal heldigvis være Strågule - månedens farve.

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Now missing the "flowers", one square in each of the corners. And as luck will have it, they are going to be painted Straw Yellow - the colour of the month.

 More sunshine  -- 🙨 --  Mere solskinsvejr

 
And here we are. The straw yellow paint, I thought I had, had dried up, and the small amount, I was able to salvage would not be enough for even these small squares. But a nice lady in the paint shop helped me match the colour. There's soo many colours to chose from!

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Og jeg troede jo at jeg havde den helt rigtige gule maling. Men den var tørret ud, og den lille rest, jeg kunne redde, ville ikke række. En flink dame i butikken hjalp mig med at matche farven ... der er virkelig mange farver på sådan et farvekort.

Så mangler 2. lag maling - og jeg skal nok huske at fjerne tapen med det samme! Hvad gjorde folk dog inden internettet?

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Now missing second coat of paint, and I will remember to remove the tape as soon as I'm done painting. What did amateur painters like me do before the internet?

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Lørdag var også dejlig varm med masser af solskin og jeg fik søreme malet igen.

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Saturday was nice and warm with lots of sunshine. Painting happened.

Så skal det bare tørre helt og hænges op, det når jeg måske i dag, men ingen garantier. Skuret er færdigt, når vi ser bort fra et par små detaljer 😃

Now it has to dry completely, and then I'll hang it on our shed ... yes the shed is finished, only missing a few details 😃
I might make it today, but I promise nothing.

 

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And to everybody who has said that my Straw Yellow was greenish. Yes it is, my new monitor makes for better colours.
Here's a comparison between my "Straw yellow" and the colour, I painted the cactus rose flowers:

Colour25 - august

Der bliver høstet på højtryk rundt om os, og jeg ønsker mig en ny halmballe til skydeøvelser, så månedens farve bliver strågul - eller strågylden om man vil.

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Egentlig går udfordringen ud på at finde og fotografere en eller flere ting med månedens farve og så lægge billederne op på sin blog, men efterhånden har det udviklet sig, så man må gøre stort set som man lyster, så længe det hverken er uforskammet eller vulgært.
    Og ja, jeg har valgt mange gule farver i år. Måskke er 202 bare et gult år.

The harvest is going on full steam all around us, and I'd very much like a new bale for shooting at. Ergo the colour for August is straw yellow, or straw golden as you like.

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I challenge you to find something containing this colour, photograph it, and post the photo on your blog one of the Sundays in August.

If you want to incorporate the colour into another challenge - for instance the Words for Wednesday - this is also fine.

If you have other ideas for the use, this is fine as well - and as usual with these challenges, most anything goes, only nothing rude or vulgar, please.

Yes, there's many yellow colours in 2025 so far. Maybe it's just a yellow year?

Søndagsbilleder ~ den fjerde søndag i juli Sunday Selections ~ Fourth Sunday of July

Så er det sidste søndag med skriveglædelilla.

Den farve har været svær at finde, og skriveglæden har det også været så som så med. Den nye computer og dens "sjove" ideer har ikke ligefrem gjort det nemt.

Men lige udenfor døren har jeg noget, der passer til farven - blomster og sjove kløvere.

Last Sunday of Writing Pleasure Purple.

I've had a hard time finding anything of that colour, and the writing has also not happened overmuch. The antics of my new computer have not exactly been a help either.

I realised, that I have something this colour outside my door.
Flowers and clover.

     Så i dag trængte jeg til at lave andet end at kæmpe med computere. Jeg startede på og fortsatte et par projekter. Det her er det mest fotogene af dem.
     Håndværkerne, der bygger vores udhus bruger noget sej spånplade, og jeg må gerne tage resterne. Så jeg klippede nogle skabeloner, fandt stiksaven frem - og gav den en ny klinge! - og lavede masser af savsmuld.

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Today, I needed to do something other than wrangle computers. I started and continued a few projects. This is the most photogenic of them.
The carpenters building our outhouse are using some cool coarse grained plywood / chipboard, and I'm allowed to take the leftovers. So I cut out some templates, got out the jigsaw – and gave it a new blade! – and made lots of sawdust.

Selvfølgelig kom der andet end savsmuld ud af det. Her er én af brikkerne

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Of course I did not only make sawdust. Here's one of the pieces.

Og dem alle sammen i min sankekurv kasse

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And all of them in my gathering basket crate

Og det færdige puslespil

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And the finished puzzle

Nu skal alle brikkerne slibes let og males med laserende træbeskyttelse i forskellige farver.

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Now all the pieces need a light sanding and a coat of transparent paint in different colours.