
A pale yellow wash is so subtle it can seem almost transparent, as if you could put your hand to the wall and you might touch light itself. Pale yellow is, of course, an excellent choice for a summer cottage; it's the color of mid-summer, of lemon chiffon pies and lemonade in a big glass pitcher, swimming with ice. It's the color the air turns when you're out on the sandy beach and the sun is high in the stern blue sky.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Pale Yellow
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Autumn Picnic

One of the most immediate and simple pleasures of good weather must surely be the picnic. You may think that, with the unpredictability of our weather patterns, this occupation is the very definition of optimism. But why not? All it takes is to be prepared so that when the sun does come out, you'll be ready to jump.
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Faded Blue Denim
Faded blue denim is the mythical fabric of America, and in Europe young people are crazy about it as just that emblem, representing the Wild West, Greenwich Village, Marlon Brando, Woody Guthrie, and Grant Wood all rolled into one. You can be a computer programmer in Copenhagen, but when you pull on blue jeans, you hear a horse whinny and feel a guitar on your back: the Danish word for jeans is cowboy-bukser, cowboy pants. A man in a suit is a man in a suit, but someone in blue jeans is part of an American myth, and that is a great gift to the world.

