Why do I like color?

Don't know about you...but I like color, especially the color red. When I travel, I usually wear darker colors though. Like black.  Do I wear this color because it doesn't show dirt, spilled coffee, etc. or because it makes me fit in?

I notice that when I am in New York and other large cities around the world, I usually find people dressed like this:

and even when they are more casual, they tend to look like this:

Sometimes, I wonder why I love color so much. Maybe, I owe this to my grandmother. She made a lot of mine and my sisters clothing, as children, especially at Easter time. For some reason, she always picked out a green fabric for my oldest sister, a soft blue for the next in line, and when it came to me... it was red. This looks a lot like many of my Easter dresses.

So, I wonder if you can convince a child that they favor a certain color? I am thinking probably so. The love of color also carries over to my home furnishing; bright colors seem to make me happy.. I have to tell you a funny story.

I was visiting my youngest daughter in Chicago one Spring. We were walking down Michigan Ave.( the main shopping street downtown) on an unusually warm day. I was wearing a jacket ..not unlike this one:

I suddenly became aware that almost every other woman, walking down the street, was dressed like a New Yorker, yep....different shades of black. I began to feel very self-conscious. When we stopped at a crosswalk, my daughter, who wasn't aware of how uncomfortable I was, exclaimed," Look Mom there is a bee on your jacket"!! Much to my chagrin, what seemed like a huge crowd of people, turned to look.