A Plethora of Purple

 Welcome

All kaleidoscope by inkspired and KaleidaCam 

Purple.

Let’s explore everything PURPLE!

Jellyfish:

DivePhotoGuide, Lea Lee’s Gallery

Flowers:

Ground over, Balcony Garden Web

Pysanky eggs:

Lobelia, Ukrainian Pysanky Easter egg by So Jeo

The first recorded use of the word ‘purple’

was in the AD 900’s.

Footwear:

Fabulous Maribou Slide, Walmart

From an article from bettinaelcreation.com

Are you feeling purplish yet?

Glassware:

Godinger Serveware, Macy’s

Feathers:

Macaw feathers close-up, iCanvas, by Michael Fitzsimmon

Nudibranch:

Nudibranch, posted by bouphonia.blogspot.com

The word ‘purple’ comes from the name of a Tyrian purple dye made from 

mucus secreted by 

the spiny murex snail!

The Phoenician trading city of Tyre

is now in modern day Lebanon.

Furniture:

    French Louis XVI Settee, purple velvet, Etsy

Hand beaded jewelry:

Hand-beaded jewelry set by KHandsJewelry, Etsy

That’s a LOT of snail snot to create a

tiny bit of dye.

Fish:

Cichlid; photo credit: Amy Downs, Pinterest

Ballerina:

Uploaded by Teresa Souza, Pinterest; no other credit given

Posted by Wendra Nolan, Twitter

Automobiles:

LucyLovesYa Blog; Flickr

Fungi:

amethyst Deceiver mushrooms, JustMandy, Twitter

PURPLE was exotic & rare;

Initially worn only by 

Japanese emperors, 

Roman magistrates,

Byzantine kings

and

Roman Catholic bishops.

Handbags:

PandaHall.com

Garden Kaleidoscope:

By inkspired

Cake:

50 shades of cake; Allrecipes Dish

The color purple has been found 

in Pech Merle (France) cave art,

dated back to 16,000 - 25,000 BC.

Clothing:

Vintage clothing by 1st Dibs; overstock.com

Octopus:

Octopus, article from Steemit, 12/11/2017

I think that’s all for today!

‘Til next time,

inkspired

I gathered information from several sites.

Here are a couple of them:

en.Wikipedia.org

Artsandcollections.com

Pinterest.com

Kaleidoscopes

 Welcome!

All kaleidoscopes are by inkspired using KaleidoCam app

Well, apparently I am stuck with the ‘new format’ blogger.

Sigh.

Just took me 5 minutes to place the welcome,

photo and description.

Not fun.

Sooooo......let’s begin our adventure!

Garden kaleidoscopes 

I have enjoyed our flower gardens so much this year.

With all that color, texture and shape

they constantly cried out

“Take a photo!”

“Make kaleidoscopes!”

So, I did!

I had so many beautiful Black-eyed Susans this year,

planted from a mixed seed packet.

Yellow is a favorite color of mine -

so cheery!

You may have noticed that some other yellow flowers

have crept into my kaleidoscopes.

I also have yellow/white striped flowers,

daisies, and yellow day lilies to name a few.

Somehow purple is always plentiful in my garden,

so I suppose that is another fave flower color.

I know it is one of my favorite colors overall.

💜

I think I will close with just a few more

flower kaleidoscopes.

I have a plethora of them, you know!

‘Til next time,

inkspired

Kaleidoscopes and free apps

Welcome!

Kaleidoscope by inkspired

I was waiting in a restaurant recently, waiting for some friends.

Since I can never just ‘sit’

I always bring something to read, something to do.

That day I had my iPad so I started editing my

Kaleidoscopes.

A customer walked past and commented

‘Is that one of those coloring pages?’

He explained he had just downloaded an app for coloring.

I replied that no, this was from an app called

KaleidaCam

that uses my camera and iPad to create kaleidoscopes.

 

He really liked the few I showed him, and copied down the name.

I hope he found the app, it is such a fun one!

I downloaded mine free, through the site called

AppAdvice.

Great site! Every day there are 3-4 apps to choose from,

Totally free!

(Usually cost from  $ .99 - 6.99 or so)

To make these fun and beautiful kaleidoscopes I use the
KaleidaCam app, with my iPad camera.

Sometimes you can figure out what I am capturing,

Like the flowers in my garden, above.

Sometimes it is a mystery!

I hope they have brought a bit of beauty into your life today.

❤️

‘Til next time,
inkspired

Truth, learned from experience:
The coffee pot water will not heat until you turn the stovetop on.
😁