I'm Just Mad About Saffron

When I was a wee little high school student I took an advanced art class my senior year. I'm not a particularly gifted painter, and my teacher was just a tad bit crazed. She abhorred the color orange. Any time a shade of yellow creeped towards a more reddish hue she nearly had a seizure. She was mad about saffron. Literally.

And I really never understood why. Still don't. Here at Bloom we have so many beautiful yellow-orange things. Like this Chinese yellow glazed lamp.

And this painting of Tiger Lillies.

Real-life Tiger Lillies are pretty amazing, too.

As is this Ryszard Ramski cameo glass vase with an Iris flower.

Real-life Irises are gorgeous, too. But they're purple, and hence for another day. Sorry.

But back to saffron and flowers and this radiant Italian painting of sunflowers.

I don't take any of you to be yellow-orange haters, but if you did need convincing I hope I nudged you a little closer towards accepting this sunny slice of the spectrum.