{"id":18725,"date":"2014-06-30T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18725"},"modified":"2014-06-19T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T02:34:38","slug":"lupine-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-074-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/lupine-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-074-b\/18725\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupine Palette | Premo Color Recipes Vol-074-B"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lupine<\/a><\/a>1<\/span>-B<\/span>: Gentle<\/span>
\n2-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Refreshed<\/span>
\n3-<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Lupine
\n<\/span>4<\/span>–<\/span>B<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong> Pillowcase<\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A long<\/em> time ago… just before the kids were born, Doug and I lived out in the country. We had purchased a big chunk of land along the mountainside near Hope, British Columbia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our plans were to build a Trout Farm on the property using water from a spring fed creek that spills over a beautiful waterfall<\/a>. The land was pretty untamed and there were wildflowers everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although that trout farm in Hope never did come to fruition, we did work with investors on another trout production facility nearby, which provided an opportunity for us to spend many years living on our rural land, before eventually returning to civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n

During those years, I was very much aware of all the wildflowers that would bloom in the fields and on the mountainside. Wild Lupines, like the one pictured above, grew en masse in huge patches of blue, green and purple. Their colorful spikes swaying and rippling like waves of water, when the wind blew.<\/span><\/p>\n

I drove a lot from our place up in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, down into the City of Vancouver, delivering Live Trout to the bustling Chinatown community… and specialty dressed bone-out fillets to our marque customers like Costco and other local seafood establishments.<\/span><\/p>\n

During my drives, I was always amazed to see how the vegetation would shift because of the small climate differences between our upper valley location and the more coastal areas closer to the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

You see, along the ditches of the one and a half hour trip from Hope to Vancouver, were patches of wild lupines. The ones closer to the seaside in Vancouver would be in full color first. Then two weeks later, the ones further up the valley would bloom, and finally, ours up at the mountain property would do their thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

It wasn’t the temperature so much at the time of blooming that caused the difference… Hope actually tends to get warmer than Vancouver because there is no cool ocean breeze. It was actually more to do with the milder climate of the coast that got the Lupines out of hibernation sooner… Hope gets slightly hotter in summer and colder in the winter. Nature is very fascinating to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any way… I was reminded of all the Lupine stuff when Doug brought this beautiful Lupine flower home from one of his many walks to the YMCA the other morning. He’s always on the look out for specimens to photograph for upcoming color recipe palettes. I hope this was along the ditch and not in someone’s garden though… you never know with Doug! ;))<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope you didn’t mind getting led down the garden path with my little Lupine story today. Please enjoy this photo and the colors inspired by it for this July 2014 Vol-074 B-series Palette!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Lupine<\/a>Everyone who is subscribed to our Polymer Clay Guest List<\/a> will be able to download the following recipes free, one per week on Friday mornings during the month of July 2014:<\/span><\/p>\n