Pam's Week 23: I See Your True Colours, Shining Through....

Now in the actual song, this is followed by the lines, "Your true colours, and that's why I love you".  In my ongoing saga, however, there is no love in the true colours I am seeing.  Instead, there is rage, anger, disgust, sadness, confusion.  I don't understand how this person I thought was my friend could have turned on me so completely or could have fooled me so thoroughly in order to abuse my trust and stab me in the back.  The things I have learned this week that have been said about me and my other colleagues have thoroughly flabbergasted me.  To sum it up, I am apparently lazy, unprofessional, negative and toxic.  Plus when I was as honest as I was comfortable being with one of my superiors as per her behest, she questioned my integrity.  I have cried ugly tears, have given up on wearing makeup to work altogether and have frightened my children with my frustration and sadness more than once this week.  Plus after saying I attacked her and made her feel unsafe to voice her opinions, she is now acting like everything is hunky dory and inquiring about my weekend plans as if I might be stupid enough to let her into my life again.  Needless to say, this whole scenario has provided me with loads of teachable moments for my children.

With all this going on in addition to the regular spring activities that haven't yet completed, the summer activities that have already started, the winding down of the school year, the umpteen festivals we are trying to attend and a retirement party, it is no wonder I didn't snap a single photo for this week's assignment until today.  When I drove in the pouring rain to pick Duncan up from his Cuboree campout last weekend and saw the lovely green pathways, I had decided I would endeavour to take monochromatic photos of every colour of the rainbow this week.  I didn't want to get out of the car in my flipflops in the mud and pouring rain to attempt the green shot, however, so thought maybe I'd make it back later in the week.  Let me save you the suspense - that didn't happen nor did my monochromatic rainbow shots.  Danica and I headed to the greenhouse at Bellevue Park to try to take photos of every colour in flowers but I didn't have much success there either.  Finally, I settled on a couple of shots of rainbows and thought I'd call it a week....

 This slide was actually closed but I had Danica climb onto it from the bottom so I could snap the photo.

The kids and I walked over to an open field next to their school to fly kites.  Duncan has a great shark kite but I thought this rainbow one from the dollar store would be more colourful.

Now in looking at the flower photos, there are some pretty and colourful ones; I just wasn't able to capture all the colours in the rainbow.  Here are some of them anyways....

 Violet

Indigo

Green

Yellow (and red)

 Hot Pink (technically not a rainbow colour)

White (technically not a colour at all but rather the absence of colour)

As you can see, I am missing blue and orange.  But hey, I tried!  

I might just admit that I'm a little intimidated by this week's subject.  I may have to have Sharon drag me out of the house to provide me with some guidance and instruction as I'm not even sure I understand the topic totally.  Of course, I could just wing it and see if I'm anywhere close to the intent of the assignment.  

Here's hoping this next week is better than the past few, in general and in photographic inspiration!