Okay, maybe not 52, but it could be! And gray isn’t the only “color” with many shades. I try to stick close to one shade of purple but it is not easy!
I’m not quite sure when or how it happened, but somewhere along the line I decided purple was my color. Perhaps it’s because I heard purple belongs to royalty and I had declared myself queen of the house.
When we decided to start a blog, mom experimented with a lot of colors, like burgundy and blue, but I insisted on purple.
Supervising my blog
And we didn’t choose purple because it’s mom’s favorite color, because it’s not. Mom’s favorite color is green. Or blue. She’s not really sure. She always thought it was blue until we moved here. She says there are so many beautiful green pastures and hills that give her such a peaceful feeling that she’s decided green must be her favorite.
But back to me and purple. We’ve been seeing our blogging friends join a hop from The Lazy Pit Bull called 52 Snapshots of Life since the beginning of the year. We’ve never joined in, but when I saw that this week’s theme is purple, well, you know I had to join.
One of my purple toys
My ID tag
My bird feeder
When I asked mom why purple is associated with royalty, she said she didn’t know so we had to do some research. Wow, who knew there could be so much history about a color!
As early as the 15th century BC, the purple of royalty was made in Sidon and Tyre, two cities on the coast of ancient Phoenicia, from the mucous secretion of a snail called the spiny dye-murex. It took thousands of these little creatures and a long, expensive process to make a small amount of dye. The color became known as Tyrian purple, which could range from bright crimson to a dark purple, depending on the type of snail and how it was made. Purple is a combination of red and blue and can be made by combining a lot of different things, but this Tyrian purple and it’s expense is what originally associated it with royalty.
My new carrier for my trip to Blogpaws! It looks a little blue in this light but it is very purple.
Here I am in my new purple harness that matches my carrier above. This is my official entry in 52 Snapshots of Life : Purple!
Purple is associated with individualism and the unconventional. It is the major color that occurs the least frequently in nature and was the first color to be synthesized. It became much less expensive to buy purple dyed fabrics after a young English chemist accidentally created a synthetic purple compound while attempting to synthesize the anti-malaria drug quinine in 1856. He patented the dye and made a fortune.
May you have a prosperous day!
Christy Paws
You can read a lot more about the history of purple here:
Wikipedia
Why is the Color Purple Associated with Royalty?
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Whoa! I didn’t know that about purple although I’d been told how royalty becomes me. TW and Plush CK can’t wait to meet you at Blogpaws.
We are so excited about BlogPaws!
Love the facts to go along with this week’s photo challenge!
That’s some very interesting facts! And purple looks lovely with the kitties especially the blue eyes. Can’t wait to meet you at BlogPaws! Love Dolly
Hi Dolly! Thanks for stopping by. I’ll look for you at BlogPaws. I’m so excited to be going!
Mee-yow yur pawsum in purpull Christy!!!
Mee too luvss thee purpull as mee iss a Purrince….mee finkss many of us here are royalle an purpull luvverss…maybe wee should start a group mew mew mew….
Luv yur carrier an matchin harness….Go ROCK thee werld Christy!!
Luv an **nose kissess** Siddhartha Henry an LadyMum
Most of the ladies at our house favor purple as well, including our mom. She has two favorites, purple and aqua. Calista Jo favors pink. Mauricio is indifferent. Mom is so excited to hear that she’ll be meeting you at BlogPaws. Hope you’ll be joining us for Sunday Selfies. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
the purple is just lovely next to your fur! My favorite color is green also….if you notice, my blog theme has green AND purple 🙂
You look plum beautiful in purple! ♥
You have really pretty eyes and lovely pictures. The humans favorite color is purple.
You look great in purple, Christy ! We learned interesting things about your favorite color today ! Purrs
You have to meet up with my sister Bailie at BlogPaws since she is a purple girl too. She likes kitties and hangs out with cat bro Bert all the time.
You sure look great with purple , Christy Paws !
My favorite color is purple too 🙂
XOXO
I think we might have the same harness! It’s definitely the same colour 🙂
Purple suits you perfectly..it is one of my fave colours and is said also to be linked to spiritual people 🙂 so maybe you also have a spiritual side to you sweetie 🙂 loves Fozziemum xx
Purple is one of my human’s favorite colors.
You look fabulous in purple!
Purrs,
Pearl
Your furs are so beautiful with purple!
What a pawsum posty. We luv purrple and so we use a lot of purrple and blues (cuz of meez eyes) on meez bloggy. and OMC weez sure hope weez find a way to get to BlogPaws so weez can meet you. Paws cwossed and purrayers we find a wide or da gween papers. Hav a pawsum weekend.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
It sure would be great to meet you at BlogPaws!
You look simply gorgeous in your purple harness and carrier…it is definitely your color 🙂 Purple is one of my 2 favorite colors too (pink is the other).
Christy, purple is my favorite color. I think it looks good with my black furs. ~Ernie
Oh, purple looks stunning with black, Ernie!
I live all the purple things you have. I wish I was going to Blogpaws so I could meet you.
I wish all my friends were going to BlogPaws! It would be so fun to meet you ALL.
Christy; indeed purple is the color of royalty; I would so know, being queen of trout towne….ok, so maybe I dont own one thing in purple, but you look FABulous in this color and I DO think mom needs to buy you several tiara’s with diamonds and amethyst….my stars can you imagine the brilliance !! hugs girl from dai$y =^..*=
heerz two a popeye catalufa kinda week oh end ♥♥♥
Purple is one of mom’s favorite colors too – she likes green and purple. Purple really looks great on you Christy, and soon you will have a nice purple flower to add to your purple collection! 🙂
Looking forward to meeting you at BlogPaws!!!
Purple is your color Christy Paws!