Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1911 — No Black on Nature’s Palette. [ARTICLE]

No Black on Nature’s Palette.

Nature uses no black in any part of her work—l will not except the blackberry and the so-called black pansy. On a bright, clear day, shadows on the snow are pale ultramarine blue; under a blue sky in midsummer the color of the placid lake is cobalt blue and the shadows of the grass are lilac; on a weathered gray boardwalk they are nearly as blue as the sky Itself. The palpitating atmosphere of a warm July day lifts the coloring of the landscape to a higher but softer key, instead of reducing it with gray; and .in the autumn when the sugar maple’s leaves are turned to gold, the shadows on the trunk, and every gray rock in the vicinity, are tinged with strong lilac. In fine, when the sun shines, everything, even the shadow which we are prone to believe is gray, is replete with color. —F. Schuyler Mathews.