Day 3: Color

Day 3:  What color are you grateful for?

I am grateful for yellow.  When we first moved into our Reno house, the living room had black floral wallpaper with matching drapes (pictured above).  Now, the same room has yellow walls (pictured below), and it makes an enormous difference.  It brightens up the room, both by increasing the literal lightness and by making it feel cheerier.

Another yellow related thing that I'm grateful for is sunshine.  Reno gets 252 sunny days per year, and the only way this could get better is if that number was 365.  I love this feature of desert living.  It mellows out winter, it makes it easier and more pleasant to spend time outside year round (and it makes it easier to boot the dog outside when he's being a pest), and it feels good physically and emotionally to get so much sunshine.