Blue, green and blue-green

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

- Sylvia Earle -

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I've been fortunate enough to have travelled all over the world, to have seen amazing places and had incredible experiences. Some have been in cities and based around man-made places and, as a man keen on learning things and history, I've loved that immensely, but it's natural places I truly love and which inspires me.

Nature is a vibrant palette of colours and they're all represented from deserts, sunsets that set the sky alight, to lush, dark places deep in the rain forest where light struggles to penetrate. There's lakes and oceans, savannah, rolling hills full of flowers, snow-covered mountains and open plains...The planet provides it all and out there, amongst it, is where I feel complete, comfortable and content.

It was with this in mind I decided to do a couple of #weekend-engagement topics around nature this week, and in particular the blue's and greens I love so much. You can take a look at week 120 here if you'd like to find the writing prompts and guidelines for entry.

I decided I'd better throw a photo or two into the mix myself and gathered a few here, all my own, of a few places I've been and enjoyed. I decided to do a mix of blue and green separately and then show them together as nature does those two colours together better than any human could.

The blue

• London and Weymouth - United Kingdom
• Milford Sound and Queenstown and in the air, New Zealand
• Port Lincoln, Semaphore and across the road from my house, Australia.

It was very difficult to narrow my photos down as I have so many and I have so little time so I ended up just randomly clicking on a few to tell the blue story.

The green

• Tiverton (Knightshayes Court), United Kingdom
• Lennox Head and Nightcap National Park, New South Wales, Australia
• Lake Gunn nature walk and Falls Creek Waterfall, New Zealand
• The cattle farm I cull on and across the road from my house, Australia

The blue-green

Lastly, and my favourite collage, is the blue-green. There's something about these colours together that make me smile and feel very happy. I don't know if others feel the same way but it certainly works for me.

• Wardour Castle, Boscastle, Dartmoor and Tintagel, United Kingdom
• Mt Crawford Forest, Adelaide Hills Australia
• The cattle farm I cull on, Adelaide Hills Australia
• Barossa Valley, South Australia
• Flinders Ranges, mid-north South Australia.

I have so many memories gained in beautiful places around the world and so many images to help bring me back to them. But I don't have to go far to find such enjoyments. The park the beach, a short drive to a local forest nearby...Sure, I love remote and wilderness places but if I can't get there when I want to I find a substitute.

You see, I feel that life is too short to hold out for a big moment when there's so many little ones to be found and that can provide a deep satisfaction every bit as enjoyable as the places in this post.