A Grey Day

Today has been one of those grey, horrible winter days that hasn't properly got light. I really dislike the bleak grey weather, yet I like grey as a colour. Does that make any sense? Logically, it would be fair to assume that I would dislike the colour grey because of the connotations of grey in the context of weather, ageing, dirt, pollution, blandness... I could elaborate further... The truth is, I like grey around the home, in fashion, for retail or on technology applications and it is one of the few colours where I can't think of a shade I don't like.

To conclude I could say that I dislike grey in nature... yet I believe a colour can rarely look wrong in nature. These grey miserable days are part of winter and a defining factor of the difference between the seasons, which I enjoy observing. So you get grey days in every season, yet the winter grey day doesn't really get properly light and there seems to be little contrast in the landscape, there is no essence of sunlight or a reflection of the green bright plants.

Grey is a neutral, and it goes with every colour with out exception in my opinion. Naively people often assume that grey is a shade between black and white, although a splash of pink, green, brown, blue or yellow can change subtly into a more interesting colour.

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