Red Houses

November 25, 2009

Small or large, urban, suburban or rural, there's something about a red house that commands attention. Is it intrinsic to the color or to the sheer volume of red that presents itself as big as a house? Is it the unexpected amidst what we typically expect as colors in nature?

Red houses remain unmistakably red whether at dawn or twilight; viewed under intense, noonday July sunshine; bathed in September morning fog; enveloped by lingering, April urban haze; breaking the rhythm of suburban, August monotony; against bleak, gray November afternoons; or leaping out of stark, snow-covered January mornings.

RJG