Indigo, a colour to dive into and get lost in, a deep shade somewhere between purple and blue. No wonder hippies and kings embrace it.
Indigo Girls
“Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.” (source http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/indigo)
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Playing along with Sister Sun's exploration into the world of colour.
My children wanted to know what the colour indigo was so I Googled some images to show them. We were thoroughly taken in by this mushroom that resembles the Saffron Milk Caps, Lactarius deliciosus, that we find in the pine plantations around here. Our mushrooms ooze orange but these Lactarius indigo ooze a deep indigo blue. Incredibly, they are safe to eat, although the flavour is not highly regarded.
