About a month since I did a Happy Color update.

Decided to share these two completed images from places as I’d shown them in progress in my most recent photo diary post. I see now that I put them in the opposite order from the in progress shots but these things happen. Happy Color didn’t label them as they do some of the places pictures, so I had to search to find that they are both cholets in El Alto, Bolivia designed in the Neo-Andean (or New Andean) style. I dig it, as the kids said decades ago.

 
Groups I’ve finished since the previous update (most recent listed first; all counts include any friends I matched with the main images for the group):

World Photography Day (4) [August 19]

Watercolor-like lilies in blue and white (2) [found while looking for friends for India Independence Day]

India Independence Day (16) [August 15]

Mandalas at an angle (2) [found while looking for friends for India Independence Day]

Ecuador Independence Day (2) [August 10]

Raksha Bandhan (2) [August 9]

International Cat Day (2) [August 8]

Summer: flamingos (56), flamingo pool floats (2, one of which is a mandala), summer sports mandalas (2), swimming & swimming pools & floating & snorkeling & scuba diving (26, one of which is a mandala), waves with other stuff like women and/or fish and/or shells and/or paper boats (8), surfers (6), paddleboarding and kayaking (4), jet skis (2), sailboats (2), women looking summery near sailboats and/or water and/or wearing hats (13), beach scenes with surfboards (5), beach scenes without surfboards but many with chairs and/or umbrellas and/or thatched roof structures (18), beach cottages (2), more beach scenes many featuring seashells (16), sea shells and starfish including 3 mandalas (8), palm trees and water with or without beaches (8), palm trees and city buildings (2), road trip cars and vans and scooters (30), luggage (3), beach still life scenes many with sun hats and/or sandals (10), scatter designs including sunglasses (3), sunglasses (4), simple flowers (2), summer designs (2), outdoor relaxation spots including benches and patios and swings and hammocks and pool decks (34), beaches with flowers (2), water with boats (4), camping and BBQing (10), animals in summer (2), playing or laying in grass with or without flowers (10), women with flowers including sunflowers (9), sunflowers (3), daisy mandalas (2), summer fashion (24), summer in the city on rooftop and through windows (2) (total of 336)

Bolivia Independence Day (2) [August 6]

Pics of the week/month for July (12) [one of the pairs is actually from June…oops]

Dailies & Mysteries (24) [one daily got three friends; another got five!]

Coloring Book Day (8) [August 2]

Dailies & Mysteries (16)

International Friendship Day (2) [July 30]

Summer: Dandelions (8) [includes a daily]

Summer: Watercolor Fashion (8)

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly (2) [July 27]

Dailies & Mysteries (20)

Summer: Roller Skating (20) [includes 4 I re-colored so they could be in this group]

World Emoji Day (2) [July 17]

Dailies & Mysteries (14)

Bastille Day (14) [July 14]

Currently In Progress:

1.) Dailies and mysteries from the first full week of August (that’s as far as I got what with working on the big summer group). All are paired, though I’m not delighted by one of those and will be keeping an eye out for a better match. (Separators: overlapping circles) [18 images total]

2.) Tea and sunflowers which used to be in the summer group but didn’t seem to quite fit in the flow, so I broke them out. (Separators: zig zag patterns) [4]

3.) Summer: ice cream and other sweet treats [48], fruits [52], drinks (many of which feature fruits) [38]. (Separators: op art swirls) [140]

4.) Swings that used to be part of summer but don’t shout “summer” now that they’re partially colored so they’re their own thing now. (Separators: mosaic waves) [6]

5.) Pictures of the week for August so far. (Separators: fine line wavy patterns, rainbow squiggles, paisley) [12]

6.) Holidays that need to be incorporated in the bigger group: 4th of July, chocolate day, lantern festival. (Separators: geometric mandalas, diamond repeats curvy and straight, triangle monster) [12]

7.) Holiday/seasonal: Rubber Duck Day, Venice Carnival, Women in Science Day, Valentine’s, Happy Birthday, St. Patrick’s Day, Spring, World Water Day, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, Relaxation Day, Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, World Dream Day, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Teachers’ Day, International Internet Day, Halloween, Diwali, World Kindness Day, Autumn, Thanksgiving, Winter, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa. (Separators: tile-like patterns, two waves and two not) [136]

8.) Spring/equinox that need to get incorporated into holiday/seasonal. [2]

9.) All the rest of the separators [68]

Counts are mostly accurate though not guaranteed. I’m glad I got a big chunk of summer done, as I’m running out of actual summer. I added at least a dozen to the group I did finish between last update and this to better transition between subjects (and because they kept adding more summer pictures that caught my eye). I’m aiming to finish the remaining summer group before my September update. When writing this update, I realized I missed Relaxation Day on August 15th; there wasn’t a new pic in the Holidays tab for it, as they went all in on Indian Independence Day, with 10 images plus a bonus. Since I didn’t finish all the August holidays I did do on the actual day, I think I’ll go ahead and gather some images for that and do those before August ends.

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