Periwinkle Blue and White Washed houses

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Kalimera, Kalimera! Good morning and a wonderful Greek Friday is wished for you. Kalimera Katerina! Blue and white have many interpretations, symbolizing the colours of the famed Greek sky and sea, combined with the white clouds and waves - blue being depicted as "Azure" taken from the ancient word describing the slab of lapis lazuli, the mineral from which azure took its name. The BLUE seen in Greece along the hilltops and the doors, gates, and pathways is considered Periwinkle Blue and every time I look at the Periwinkle flowers in my garden, I am taken back to a Greek BLUE place in my memories. By association one can stir up memories just about any place and any time - that is the magic of the mind. Vincent Van Gogh described to his brother Theo how he composed a sky: "The dark blue sky is spotted with clouds of an even darker blue than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a lighter blue, like the bluish white of the Milky Way ... the sea was very dark ultramarine, the shore a sort of violet and of light red as I see it, and on the dunes, a few bushes of prussian blue." Blue - "the colour between violet and green on the optical spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive blue when observing light with a wavelength between 450 and 495 nanometres." Wishing you all a fantastic laid back, wonderful Friday - be blessed. My photo is of the Cathedral of Mykonos in the little town of Ano Mera