To find out more about this year’s photo challenge here on Travel Words, please read this post.
This month we will be looking for Purple. A secondary colour made from red and blue, though you can find many different shades of purple. Try to stay clear of violet though as that will be making its own appearance. Although found in nature in shades of crocuses, lilacs, and irises look for the bruised colours in a sunrise or sunset, an indigo sea, a full moon in an inky sky. The darkness of a red wine, a rich velvet curtain or a starling’s wing.
“Colours are the smiles of Nature.
When they are extremely smiling,
and break forth into other beauty besides,
they are her laughs;
as in the flowers.”~Leigh Hunt as Poet and Essayist (1889)
TRAVEL WORDS 
I will be back and this time put all of my eggs into one post 😀
You have an entire month! So no rush.
I’m off to look for some purple photos!
Yay!
You have certainly found some extraordinary purples, Jude… here’s a challenge!
Where you lead, we follow – I’ll be back later in the month with my purple offerings! 🙂
I look forward to seeing what you find Emma.
As soon as I opened my inbox I went straight for your post to see what you have in store for us this month. This will be a real challenge I think, and you’ve provided some great examples.
Oh, lovely selection, Jude. Here are just 3 images from me, hope I can find more later: https://suejudd.com/2021/05/02/life-in-colour-purple-1/
You are quick!
Yay!
Me too! Couldn’t wait… although …purple!! that’s a challenge all right!
Yes, a slightly more difficult colour to find. Though I am sure you will.
‘Challenge’ is the correct word.
No good having it easy every month!
mmmmm…. forgot about the ‘challenge’ bit!!!😅 😂
There will be more throughout the month to assist. Or confuse.
I’ve just had a preliminary browse. I can’t find much 😦
Bluebells? Irises? Doesn’t have to be floral.
Beautiful collage of purples
Thank you!
Very poetic 🙂 🙂 So is lavender violet, then? I don’t mean the plant but the colour I think of as lavender is paler. Anyway, lovely photos, and we do have a fair bit of it around right now. Have a good Sunday!
There’s not a lot in it when you consider the paler shades. I won’t be judging harshly 😊
I always think of purple and violet as shades of the same colour. I’m not confident I can choose the right one for the right month!
Not to worry. There is not much difference. Redder shades tend to be purple, bluer shades violet. But I won’t be disqualifying anyone 😂
I hope I manage the distinction between violet and purple – e.g. your tree, I would have put down on the violet side … Maybe it’s because German calls both colours “lila” (unless you are an interiour decorator). Anyway, here is my first crop: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/02/wooly-and-scaly-purples/
Mmm.. I wondered about the tree afterwards. Probably more on the violet side.
I just realised you called my pictures “eclectic” well, nomen est omen 😀
Is that what eklastik means in German? I hadn’t thought.
No, it isn’t really. It’s a word I made up – out of a nickname I have and my given name (Elke) but from the beginning I liked the connection to “eclectic” (which would be “eklektisch” in German).