Summers are for tomatoes and the color RED!

 

As I munched on a super fresh tomato salsa and blue corn chips today, it occurred to me…

I’m obsessed with these beautiful juicy gifts from nature!

But it’s more than their tasty flavor that keeps me coming back.

It’s the 

 

How alluring it is, in it’s many shades.

And as is often the case, 

Martyn Lawrence Bullard put a fresh spin on his new wallpaper design

by grounding it with this shock of red.

Both energetic and calming, 

he effectively uses red to balance the strong pattern in the wallpaper.

 

Red was popping up everywhere this spring

at High Point Market.

I particularly love the faux Malachite secretary with it’s racy red interior!

And these organic glass bowls would look right at home with 

a big pile of just-picked tomatoes in them!

Design mimics nature…

We’ve come full circle, haven’t we.