It was the Lunar New Year on Thursday - and so that means Red is the featured colour for the diary this week. Red is the colour that reflects happiness and fortune. And oh - it does contrast beautifully with all the surrounding white of late...
Red is also a Fire element. Something much desired as we in the northeast are snow and cold weary.
So let's go Scarlet in the Garden! And maybe this can start some sort of warming/melting trend... because it's just too damn cold to think about Gardening in my yard right now.
Under the Fire element is the Vermillion Bird (well, a tanager will have to do)
although more common around my neck of the woods is the deep red
found on the Yellow Bellied Sapsucker
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And also under the Fire element is the goat or the sheep -
and this year is the year of the Sheep (or Ram or Goat... I grew up with knowing it as the year of the Sheep or Ram).
Gung Hay Fat Choy!