not bright, but beautiful

I'm just beginning work on the sixth book in the Clever Concepts series. This involves large amounts of time looking through my thousands of photos for suitable images to fit the particular concept I'm writing about. But inevitably I get side-tracked by all the photos I've forgotten or never used, and I see my life scrolling backwards in flowers, cakes, knitting, quilts, towns and gardens. 

It's all highly enjoyable, but very distracting. I found these two photos of sea kale I took two years ago on the beach at Dungeness and thought their soft and glaucous tones would make a nice contrast to the last two, very green, flower and foliage posts. Just to show it doesn't all have to be bright to be beautiful.