A Duck Named Teal

Apparently the color is named after a duck. The common teal, a duck who's eyes are rimmed with the color, would love my basement right now. As you've heard on the news, New England is a float. My basement at midnight last night had 14 inches as we began to set up the sump pump we'd scrambled for all day. The waterfall down the street, with the 15 foot drop, doesn't fall. It's one gigantic river. I'm skimping on the posts this week but find more of the beloved color squares of Josef Albers very soothing this am. Little windows of it's going to be ok. Some tea and teal will get me up and going again.  

"Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature." - Josef Albers

3.10.10 Color Swatch

P A N T O N E   N o.  320

Teal, Teal, Yeal 

you are the girl 

everyone wants to 

talk to at the party. 

Sophisticated but earthy, 

you enter the room

knowing a little secret 

about each and 

every one of us. 

But it's ok, 

we know you won't tell. 

Gawd your laugh 

drives us all crazy, 

deep and a tiny bit wicked. 

How do you dance so well 

in those 3 inch heels? 

You sassy peacock party girl. 

Somehow you pull off

the push and pull of 

hot and cold 

so seamlessly.

Image by Josef Albers

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