One Word Sunday: Yellow

54 Comments
The Annexe Healthy Living Centre, Partick

Debbie’s One Word Sunday today is Yellow. In it, she features a piece of Glasgow street art which I have not seen before and now plan to look out for. She has also inspired me to do my own Yellow post, starting with the splendid yellow entrance to The Annexe in Partick – the mosaic two to the right from the door is a yellow sunflower, so double whammy there. A couple more yellow doors from Glasgow’s West End:

North Kelvinside door
Partickhill door

Some Glasgow street art:

Ruthven Lane street art
Shutter for Ukraine, Calton

Those who read my March Gallivanting post might remember the Glasgow Penguins. Mama Penguin must have very green fingers to have grown a beautiful yellow sunflower this early in the year! Here she is with some genuine spring flowers:

Glasgow penguin and sunflower
Stockingfield daffodils
Botanic Gardens daffodils
Stirling castle border

Lastly, our recent trip to Amsterdam yielded some good splashes of yellow:

Piano bar
Riot in Times Square by Daze (in Street Art Museum)
Bridge to Zaanse Schans
Yellow clogs
Spiegelgracht bicycle
Museumplein café

Happy Easter Sunday!

Netherlands, Scotland, UK , , , , ,

54 Comments »

  1. I’m not receiving emails when you post any more, whether that’s to do with my absence from WP or from the fact that my computer was hacked and it had to have a ‘deep clean’ by the makers and that has removed some contacts. Glad to have made contact again, and this yellow post is brilliant, really cheerful. Have you posted about the Netherlands? I can’t see it so far.

    Like

  2. Hi Anabel – these are fun … and I’m so pleased to see a few of your Amsterdam photos … Yellow – we could do with a little more of that down here! But it is coming – as sure as eggs will have a yolk! Cheers Hilary

    Like

  5. Pingback: Vintage – Travel with Intent

  7. Some great yellows, Annabel. I’d have thought these and tulips for Amsterdam so you surprised me with such variety.
    And the emotion street art was a fun mural I saw on my recent trip. 🙂

    Like

  8. I always think yellow is such a happy colour. I like the clogs and the Ruthven Lane street art and love that the penguins live in a wall by the river – I’m sure someone could write a children’s story about them 🙂

    Like

    • P.S – I don’t know if you ever read The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry after I reviewed it on my blog three years back but if you’re interested it has now been made into a film which hits the cinemas on April 28th. Apparently filmed in the locations mentioned in the book, if it follows the story properly it should be a good film 🙂

      Like

      • I haven’t, it’s still on my list along with many, many others! I don’t know why not because I’ve read another Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop, and enjoyed it. I saw someone else recommend Harold Fry recently, can’t remember who, but they didn’t mention the film. I’ve just looked it up – Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton, great cast, you are right, should be good.

        Like

  14. I liked all the interesting yellow photographs but I have to say that I am astonished in that I never knew penguins had such gardening skills. I would offer mama penguin a job but the heat here would probably be too much for her – 43c is sometimes too much for me!

    Like

  15. Very colourful. I liked those mosaic tiles in Partick last time I visited. The rest I have not seen apart from the penguin and sunflower. Was there this Friday down in the gorge….. following in your footsteps/ flippers.

    Like

  16. Yellow is such a cheery colour, perfect for Spring. Hard not to smile at the Glasgow Penguins, bringing a little character to the place!

    Like