Wednesday

DOGWOOD DAZE

My color for 2007? A glorious red informed with brown, what the 1960s Sherwin-Williams catalog would have termed “Autumn Red.”

Not that it signified for me the end of summer or the onset of winter. No, it is a glorious burnt red, older and more cautious than brilliant scarlet, richer and more alive than dull maroon.

Over time, unconsciously at first, I embraced this red with childlike passion. In 2006, I purchased bedroom curtains in the color, regal satin shot through with gold thread. Seeing that shade every night must have infiltrated my psyche, branded my very spirit. I embarked upon a burnt-red shopping spree that continues to this day.

Dogwood