Day 17- Do you have this sweater in amaranth?

Good morning.  Today my nose is leading me through cyber space.  The weather is rainy and I have some end of the year loose ends to tie up before the kids are home for the summer.  Therefore, I am following my nose in a different way today.  Using the site/app StumbleUpon, I am stimulating this middle-aged brain with new colors.  Color.  One of my true loves.  One can see my love of color clearly in the new bar stools at the kitchen bar.

I love these new sturdy stools with attitude.

Through StumbleUpon I landed at Mental Floss, where I learned about some NEW colors.  Of special note:  #5 is something I would have called periwinkle.  And it is one of my very very favorite hues.  I will be taking a closer look at grapes and plums in the future.  

Enjoy!

11 Colors You've Probably Never Heard Of

1. SARCOLINE

Wearing sarcoline—literally "flesh-colored"—high heels makes your legs look longer. Wearing a sarcoline leather jacket reminds everyone of Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.

2. COQUELICOT

Originally another word for poppy, coquelicot is the flower's orange-tinted red color. (It also sounds like a celebrity baby name.)

3. SMARAGDINE

Smaragdine sounds like a Smurfs villain, but it means emerald green. It was the 2013 Pantone Color of the Year.

4. MIKADO

It's a Japanese emperor, a comic opera, and a bold yellow.

5. GLAUCOUS

Glaucous was first used as a color name in 1671, but it's more than a hue. It describes the powdery—and perfectly harmless—blue-gray or blue-green coating on grapes and plums.

6. WENGE

If you've ever shopped for furniture, you know wenge. It's that dark brown wood color with copper undertones that even classes up particle board. Actual wenge wood comes from the endangered Millettia laurentii legume tree, so you won't find it at West Elm.

7. FULVOUS

What makes an owl or duck fulvous? Brownish-yellow feathers.

8. XANADU

It's a Chinese city, a 1980 musical flop, and the gray-green color of the philodendron leaf.

9. FALU

The deep red shade commonly found on barns is Falu. It's named for the Swedish city of Falun, where it originated in a copper mine.

10. EBURNEAN

Something that's eburnean is as white as ivory. Of course, ivory's not completely white—it has a slightly yellow shade.

11. AMARANTH

Rose-red amaranth isn't just a plant. It's a color, too. The word amaranthine—with definitions including related to the amaranth, eternally beautiful, and everlasting—is also a pigment, but it's darker than amaranth. Not to mention that amaranths are actually short-lived perennials. Confused yet?