everything is fresh and new, the birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming! AND longer, warm days ahead! Perfect time to spring clean. As a rule, …  

— one sprang awake, a new part of the soul woke up suddenly, and the old world gave way to a new.” ― D.H. Lawrence. That’s exactly how I felt yesterday in Santa Fe, New Mexico… It was a bright, glorious morning and I took an early morning walk up the famous, Canyon Road.  Although it was mid-February, you could feel Spring in the crisp air.  

The Pantone color of the new year is “Greenery” #15–0343, a fresh spring apple-green. Though it looks very fresh, new, and modern, Rococo and Adam period architects preferred this distinctive hue for palace drawing rooms, dining rooms, and royal bedchambers. While definitely bright and cheerful, as with all blues and greens…