citrine

the yellow-green of spring’s new growth is one of my all-time favorite colors. not because I am particularly attracted to citrusy colors, but because of what the color represents here in the north. there is a tiny little eyeblink of a moment when the grays and blacks and whites of late winter, melt into a hesitant new-growth–green i call citrine, and we know at that point that the corner has been turned, and the green torrent of summer is officially unavoidable.

early understory spring growth