Seeing Red

I've noticed a bit of a red theme in my photos these days.

Red is for happiness, red is for good luck, red is for love.

Red was an expensive color in 17th-century France

because at the time, the dye was made from a little bug
found in Mexican cactus, the cochineal.

In some cultures, the privilege of wearing red

was reserved exclusively for the powerful...

but non-nobles broke the rules all the time,

some Japanese lined their kimonos

in the forbidden colour or even wore red underwear!

Red can be a naughty color,

think red-light districts and bordellos.

But I like red because quite simply,

it brings happiness to my days.