Colour Moods – From a Riot to Contemplation

Cicely Mary Barker
A Flower Fairies Treasury

The cover, a riot of colour, appeals to the sense of smell (heady purple heliotrope) and taste (peppery orange nasturtium)

Cicely Mary Barker - A Flower Fairies Treasury - cover

Inside, the frontispiece is a restful black and white drawing of the daffodil fairy who looks like he is sitting in an enforced time out

Cicely Mary Barker - A Flower Fairies Treasury - frontispiece

Or is there some other purpose to his brooding?

And so for day 2670
05.04.2014

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