Honoring Turquoise

Anyone who knows me knows that turquoise is my favorite color and that I particularly like turquoise with red or lime green.  I buy things I don't need because they are turquoise.  Much of my clothing is turquoise; I use a turquoise and garnet colored rosary; I collect turquoise rings; my furnishings are touched here and there - but much more so than the average - with turquoise (and lots of red); I often wear a rubber turquoise band inscribed with "Dominus illuminatio mea"; right now I am wearing an antique bangle made of turquoise and pearls; I save robin egg shells when I find them to marvel at the color; I work turquoise into my art when I can; and, most significantly, my iPod Nano is sort of turquoise. 

I have wondered why turquoise does so much for me.  Could it be my native American Indian gene (paternal great-grandmother) that draws me to the color?  It might be my love of water because I believe white sanded beaches with turquoise water surpass in beauty anything else nature has to offer.  Perhaps my love of turquoise began as a child upon learning that it was my birthstone (December), and later living in Miami, where turquoise is boldly flaunted from clothing to art deco buildings, only intensified this pre-existing obsession.  It could be it is just a cool and extravagant color, or the appeal as simple as vanity because turquoise looks especially good on brunettes.  When I was younger I went through a spell of painting all of my furniture Robin Egg Blue, a time still referenced in my family as Jan's Robin Egg Blue Period.  Whatever the case, turquoise delights me like no other color, energizing and soothing me at the same time, an exotic and tropical color that looks like a mixture of the sky and green earth.         

So you can imagine how thrilled I was to find a website devoted to the color, Everything Turquoise.   I look forward to exploring the site and discovering more turquoise things I do not need but want.  But most of all, I am glad to know that there are others in this world with so much passion for a color - especially turquoise - that they would create a web site devoted to it.  Somehow that makes me feel less eccentric.