It’s #rainy and #dreary outside, yet the first song to come to mind is by the #BeachBoys.

🎶Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new?
After having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through🎶

#WouldntItBeNice #HaveANiceDay #SingASong #SingAlong #music #sing #happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6TK9xKgGmk

Just looked out of my window. The article author is correct - blandness is taking over our world. Here's the colour count for cars parked in my street:

8 black
2 grey/silver
2 white
1 blue (it pulled up & parked while I was looking)

"My friend once came to see me in a flat I’d just moved into. This was Lee Dixon, the former footballer and a television colleague at the time. He looked around approvingly but said: “You’ve got to be a bit careful here. Your carpets, your sofa and your walls are all grey. You’ve got these big windows and outside the clouds are grey. Your hair is grey and so are your clothes. Your disposition’s a bit grey sometimes, too. You’re blending in. I can barely see you. You might have to put on some hi-vis.”#color #colour #bland #cars #design #grey #VisualStimulation #dreary

Everything has turned grey – cars, clothes, kitchens, carpets. I can’t take it any more | Adrian Chiles | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/28/everything-in-our-world-is-grey-how-did-we-come-to-this

Read my ★ review of "The Whale," the most depressing, exploitative, unintentionally hilarious piece of Oscarbait in the history of depressing, exploitative, unintentionally hilarious Oscarbait. Bonus MST3K points for Darren Aronofsky adding a horror-movie soundtrack every time Brendan Fraser opened a candy bar! https://boxd.it/3ULBIr

#review #film #movie #TheWhale #DarrenAronofsky #BrendanFraser #Oscarbait #terrible #pretentious #exploitative #manipulative #dreary #depressing #ArtsyFartsy

#monochrome #photography #cyan #StormySaturday #RainyNights #Dreary #blue #blues #drizzle

2am #Downpour in #Sacramento Feb 25th, 2023 as seen from my apartment window...was hoping for a little thunder & lightning, but it must have left it all in the Bay Area this time. Same shot with a bit more editing in each of the cyan versions.

#introduction (continued) I like to make little bits of #software in my spare time*. One of my favourite creations is this powershell module that replaces the aspirational Microsoft-curated lock-screen pictures with an endless stream of #dreary #gloom from #flickr. It brings me joy every day, because that's the kind of weirdo I am.
https://blob.pureandapplied.com.au/greatdismal/

*aka when I'm slacking off at work.

You put
The colour
In
Everything

Before you
The world was
An old
Black and white
Television

Dull and
Dreary
But you!

You are
Technicolour
You are
The brightest
Of lights

I never needed
My name
Lit up in them
Before you

But now I do
Now I do.

#MastoPrompt #SmallPoems #Dreary

When I grow weary
And my life seems quite dreary
I'm glad you're near me

#MastoPrompt #haiku #poetry #dreary

Today I have a simple query,
What makes a rainy day
Get described as #dreary?
As a kid I'd quickly dash
To the very biggest puddle
Just so I could make a splash.

Off the school bus in a flash.
To give my dog a happy cuddle
Then out the door in a flash
To play till I was truly weary.
And in my memory replay
Rainy days are mostly cheery.

#SmallPoems for #MastoPrompt

Contemplating existence
As I shake away the dreary day
Rest
Comes
With
Persistence
Somehow sleep finds a way
And welcomes me with open arms
Like a loving child 
Awaiting for me to come home
Singing me sweet lullabies
Staccato rhythms like a beating heart
As my mind and thoughts drift apart
I see dream worlds in saccades 
Another end to another day

#MastoPrompt #SmallPoems #poetry #dreary

Lonely Flower and Visitor, 2021. By Matthew Swab.

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/99178709

A Humming Bird visiting a lonely Zinnia flower, that was nearly wilted due to the season, on a rain dreary day. Less than a week later all the local hummingbirds had migrated south for the winter. This was the, imho, best Hummingbird Photo I took in 2021.

#hummingbird #myphoto #originalcontent #flight #flower #zinnia #photography #rainy #framed #design #dreary

...that period of time during which you take back to the store all the holiday presents which didn't fit or you didn't want.

#Dreary
#DadJoke