the word for Saturday 05.12.09 is GREEN

Today's word is GREEN and l never knew there were so many means and sayings for green..look at dictionary definition below image. Tony and I went out for a walk this afternoon as it was quite a nice day and not as cold as it has been for the last few days. We decided to go and have a look for our Christmas Tree. It started off nice but then after 10mins the rain started and it become very cold and very wet..so coffee was called for. (you can see trip for buying The Tree on my other daily blog) After a suitable warming up time and drinking our coffee..off we went again. We walked to several places for a tree. Of course l saw what l wanted immediatly...but..as usual, Tony had to see loads of trees and then we came back to buy...the one l wanted in the beginning!!!!! We still do this after 37 years of marraige!Ha! Anyway...l digress..green. As we were checking the trees at the pub called The Green Man l saw my image for Green..green Christmas trees in the garden of The Green Man Public House!

green |grēn|adjective1 of the color between blue and yellow in the spectrum; colored like grass or emeralds : the leaves are bright green.• consisting of fresh vegetables of this color : a green salad.• denoting a light or flag of this color used as a signal to proceed.• (of a ski run) of the lowest level of difficulty, as indicated by colored markers on the run.• Physics denoting one of three colors of quark.2 covered with grass, trees, or other plants : proposals that would smother green fields with development.• (usu. Green) concerned with or supporting protection of theenvironment as a political principle : a Green candidate for the European parliament.• (of a product) not harmful to the environment.3 (of a plant or fruit) young or unripe : green shoots.• (of wood) unseasoned.• (of food or leather) not dried, smoked, or tanned.• (of a person) inexperienced, naive, or gullible : a green recruit fresh from college.• (of a memory) not fading : clubs devoted to keeping green the memory of Sherlock Holmes.• still strong or vigorous : first there was green old age, hardly different from middle age.• archaic (of a wound) fresh; not healed.4 (of the complexion or a person) pale and sickly-looking : “Are you all right?—You look absolutely green.”• as a sign of jealousy or envy.noun1 green color or pigment : major roads are marked in green.• green clothes or material : two girls in red and green.• green foliage or growing plants : that lovely canopy of green over Puritan Road.• informal dated money : you'll save yourself some green.2 a green thing, in particular• a green light.3 a piece of public or common grassy land, esp. in the center of a town :a house overlooking the green.• an area of smooth, very short grass immediately surrounding a hole on a golf course.4 ( greens) green leafy vegetables : salad greens | collard greens.5 (usu. Green) a member or supporter of an environmentalist group or party.verbmake or become green, in particular• [ trans. ] make (an urban or desert area) more verdant by planting or encouraging trees or other greenery : greening the desert.• [ trans. ] make less harmful or more sensitive to the environment :the importance of greening this industry.• [ intrans. ] become green in color, through age or by becoming covered with plants : the roof was greening with lichen.DERIVATIVESgreenish |ˈgrinɪʃ| adjectivegreenly |ˈgrinli| adverbgreenness |ˈgrinˈn1s| |ˈgriːnnɪs| nounORIGIN Old English grēne (adjective), grēnian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch groen, German grün, also to grass and grow .