December Prompt: Color Burst

[Prof. Tarma Amelia Black]

Come December, there is (depending on where you live) snow and ice. Colors seem muted, grayed out. The trees are dark shapes in black and grey and brown, the leaves, so brilliantly orange and yellow and red in the fall, have all fallen to the ground.

Yet, even in the midst of the beginning of winter, one can see colors .... and, so often, the very dismalness and gloom of winter days seems to make those colors stand out in a burst of vividness. Look at me!

The colors can also be of emotion, or of activities. Something which brings life into an otherwise bland existence. Think of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Remember when Harry and Hermione are hiding? Life for them, in many ways, was dismal. Ron was gone, they were hiding from those who would kill them (or at least kill Harry), they were 'stranded' (by their own choice) in a place with very few modern conveniences.

Yet, one evening, there was music and they danced. This lightened their mood; color was added to their grayed out existence for a little bit.

Or you might have read a book in which the author uses words to paint colors as adeptly as a painter wielding a paintbrush. Whether these colors be of the visual kind or of the mental or emotion kind, it's a marvelous experience to read such a book.

What book have you read where you experience what you might call a 'burst of color', whether of the author describing the Grand Canyon and all its mystical shades of glorious nature, or of more internal shades of finding happiness in the midst of turmoil?

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