Holy Colorful Trinity

Color sometimes shows up in surprising places.

I love the fact that these things are readily available - they look like what janitors should use in Clownland, but no, they use them here!


This next picture was taken on a Shoreline East train - and something about the color choice and the angular handhold screams late 80's to me:

It brings to mind this:
 

and this:
 

For a look that takes us further back in time, here's some food-coloring packaging that I found at the grocery store:

It makes me think of that moment in the 70's when everything "yellowed out." This includes toys:

movies:

Sissy Spacek in Robert Altman's 3 Women (1977)

and album covers:

(1970)