Eye Candy

 All my life I've identified more closely with the Mexican use of color in daily life. Many colors. Bright colors. Deep colors. Fuerte (strong) colors. Contrasting colors. Even subtle colors that make you weep. Colors that some might consider to be clashing. None of this is off the table in Mexico. There's exuberance and joy in the colors of Mexico.

In many Mexican cities, this approach to color is most obvious in the color of houses/walls (because sometimes what you see from the street is a wall that surrounds a courtyard and then the house is beyond, which you might not see depending on the number of stories the house is). So this is a post about that- in Oaxaca de Juárez. It's mostly sheer eye candy.

I liked how the blue house echoes the sky in this foto.

Planned light colors? Faded aging? Planned obselescence?

that's our tortilleria there (in light biege-y pink with green trim and blue awning)

I really was talking a picture of the sky here but you can see the color of the tops of these two properties

not messing around!

change can happen fast! such that some of the houses in this post may no longer be this color

open door! I get to see the inside house!!! 

Orange is a very popular color. The houses in the foreground actually have two colors each of orange but this is a rather subtle difference

I took this foto at night so had to use flash so it's not the best. But I could not pass up this beautiful citrus/fruit combination (although here we do not have lemons, just límon which is lime; and actually that orange is more papaya than orange...)