Colors set our mood and add an important dimension to our feelings and memories of the places we visit. I thought it might be fun to group some of the photos from our library of California Native images by their predominant colors. This first collection is based on the color yellow.
“How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun.“—Vincent Van Gogh
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The delightful city of Izamal, located on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, is a magical town whose buildings are all painted yellow. |
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Built around the 6th century, the Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar (Burma). It’s gilded stupa looks down on the city of Yangon (Rangoon). |
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A young Tarahumara girl carries her little sister in a yellow shawl, in Mexico’s Copper Canyon. |
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A smiling yellow buddha looks down at worshipers in one of the thousands of temples in Thailand. |
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Shining yellow light into the night sky, Buda Castle, in Budapest, Hungary, overlooks the Danube River. |