Maritime Colors

When someone (like us) comes back from a trip to the Maritimes, they’re apt to have pictures of brightly-colored houses. This is to show those colors off and not just in houses. Plus a camera color conundrum.

On the northwest coast of PEI, probably near Cape Wolfe.

In that picture above, glance at the bit of beach showing left of the little lighthouse. There’s a color story there too.

Residentials · As it happens, our very first outing on the vacation was to Lunenberg, which features those cheerful houses.

It wasn’t just tourist magnets like Lunenberg; anywhere in the Maritimes you’re apt to see exuberantly-painted residences, a practice I admire. While the Maritimes are a long way from my home in Vancouver, we share a long, dim, grey winter, and any splash of color can help with that Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Also, we recently bought a house and, while we like it, it’s an undistinguished near-grey, so we’re looking for color schemes to steal. Thus I took lots of pictures of bright houses.

A couple years back we painted our cabin a cheery blue based on sampling photos of the shutters on Mykonos. A few neighbors rolled their eyes but nobody’s