Courtyard in Alhambra, Spain

This week Cee chose the colours apricot and peach for her Fun Foto Challenge Colourful World Series. A few weeks ago, I took a photo of summer’s bounty: the bowl of apricots and plums we’d picked on J’s family’s farm in Czech. So I went back to that photo to study the shades of apricot, wondering if I’d taken any other photos that included natural shades of apricot and peach during my stay in Germany. The answer was, not many, apart from some orange-yellow flowers! Apricot and peach are shades of summer, warm colours, and this is more a land of greens and blues. Looking back at my photos, I found that these colours were more common in warmer countries: in the orange sand and rock found in some parts of South Africa and other dry countries, which turns a yellow-orange apricot shade when the sun is setting,  and the peach-coloured stone of the beautifully carved Alhambra in Spain. It has been dry this year in central Europe, and last weekend we did ride past some wheatfields which had turned an almost peach colour in the sun. Actually, a great trick to make a room appear warmer is to paint it in shades of peach or apricot, and I noticed that buildings painted in these colours still look warm in winter or on a rainy day. Here are some of the photos I found with shades of apricot and peach.

Summer’s bounty, straight from the trees

Flowers in shade of orange and yellow.

A wheat field after a hot summer

Wheatfields in Brandenburg

The orange shades of dry countries

Granada, Spain

Kruger National Park, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Kruger National Park, South Africa

Kruger National Park, South Africa

The peach coloured stone of Alhambra

Sunsets and Nemos (clownfish)

Sunset at Noordhoek, South Africa

Finding Nemo

Bringing warmth by painting or lighting in shades of peach and apricot, oranges and yellows, even in cool climates.

Berlin Friedrichschain

Helsinki, Finland

Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

A rainy day in Piran, Slovenia

Roses in Berlin