mauve

This year, political pundits are doubling down on the idea that Orange County’s mauve march continues.

They’re seemingly white at a distance, but look closely, and you’ll find each pearly bloom has watercolor shades of blue, grass green and grayed mauve with a golden center.

“We have never done this color before. It’s a light mauve and darker violet. It sort of recalls the landscape of France.”

Anyone over the age of 45 will likely remember the “it” colors of the 1980s — black and mauve.

Far below him on the seabed the corals reached up in tentacles of red and buds of thorny mauve.