Is 'Stormy' lilac the color this summer

[malaise]

Just saw Sophie Grégoire Trudeau looking fabulous
https://globalnews.ca/video/4262720/justin-and-sophie-trudeau-greet-donald-trump-at-g7-summit

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Classy looking lady

Such a shame melanie was not there, hope see is able to travel on her usual summer vacation. snarkie, I know

[malaise]

2. Couldn't care less if she's there or not

That foreigner demanded to see the sitting President of the United States' birth certificate. She has some nerve.

[saidsimplesimon]

3. completely agree

It was snark...

[malaise]

6. I know - enjoy this

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/09/lilac-the-color-of-half-mourning-doomed-hotels-and-fashionable-feelings/

[saidsimplesimon]

22. Just caught up with my reading.

Lilacs, I planted them on my father's small farm before his death. I just could not adjust to living in Tennessee among the blind and willfully cruel. Sorry Dad, we sold the farm.

[malaise]

23. Now I feel sad

for you

But ProudLib72 has a good point - are lilacs really lilac in color?

[saidsimplesimon]

25. Not sad,

I cast probably the only Democratic vote in the county.

[malaise]

26. Great news

[Laurian]

4. Doofus had a hard time walking that far.

I'm surprised he didn't demand a golf cart.

Gawd, he's disgusting.

[malaise]

5. He sickens me

but I am not alone

[ProudLib72]

7. I have learned a new color today! Thanks Malaise!

I'm so bad with colors normally. I'd never have thought to call that dress 'lilac".

[malaise]

9. Some would call it pink

In fact I heard someone on cable call storm's suit pink. As a fan of lilac, I was pissed

[ProudLib72]

10. That would have been me

Pink with some bluish tint.

It has only be a year or so since I learned was color "coral" was. I'm bad.

[malaise]

11. Lilac is beautiful

purple's poor cousin as the article suggests.
We look forward to the lilac poui in bloom twice a year - it's blooming now

[ProudLib72]

12. Yes, they are very pretty

Part of my problem is that our lilacs come in a variety of colors, sometimes on the same tree!

Here is a picture demonstrating how dark our lilacs can be. I should be forgiven for thinking of "violet" or even "purple".

[malaise]

17. That's beautiful

The thing is some folks would call that lilac and some would not

[LeftInTX]

20. LOL - that's not a lilac....that's a crape myrtle

That specific variety is Catawba which is purple.

Crape myrtles come in white, light pink, lavender, purple, bubble gum pink, fushia, hot pink, watermelon, and red.

[ProudLib72]

21. Then I have learned TWO useful bits of information today!

Never said I was a color expert or botanist.

My parents have these bushes in their backyard, and they come in various colors (the ones you mentioned). They always called them "lilac bushes", so that's what I believed them to be. You can't trust anyone anymore!

[malaise]

24. See now I learned something

[Judi Lynn]

13. So very beautiful. We don't see it as often as a lot of other colors, do we? Thanks. n/t

[malaise]

14. True although there are many lining the main street

in the UWI staff community in Jamaica and around the Savannah in Trinidad and Tobago.
I live to see them blooming.

This one is seen much more

[Judi Lynn]

16. True! Fall would be so much more beautiful with some lilacs in bloom, wouldn't it? Wow. n/t

[Polly Hennessey]

8. He walks like a lumbering whale.

[Judi Lynn]

15. He slowed down before he hit the cement area, as if afraid he was going to fall.

What's that about?

Maybe he's near sighted, too, but too vain to wear his cheaters!

It would have been so cool if he had taken a tumble in front of the Trudeaus.

[malaise]

18. He held on the the rails as well - carefully

He's not a young man and he sure isn't fit.

[Totally Tunsie]

19. It's also rumored that he's afraid of stairs...

thus his hanging on to the rails for dear life as he descends from a plane. It's often quite comical to watch him take that first step. hehehe