Pick your jellybean

Roy's little collection of empty paint cans is about finished, and every time I look at them I have to smile.

From top left: mango for the inside soffits, orchid for the cobalt bathroom, pale lemon-lime for the upstairs guest room and other baths, "Positive Red" for the den and master bedroom, sky for the porch ceiling and outside soffits, lemon drops for the exterior.

We still don't have the deep blue for the shutters in here. Roy's going to do them next week, because the last of the ones we ordered custom-made just came in, and it's better to do them all at once.

At any rate, I think our plantings will echo every one of these colors, from plumbago to ixora, and we're talking about those Monday with our landscape architect, Craig. He'll supply the green background.