The Colors of San Sebastián

Bear with me for a moment if you will: I’m uncharacteristically going to open this post with a digression. There’s a song in the musical Barnum called The Colors of My Life. The original star of that musical was Jim Dale, a talented singer-dancer, who at the age of 80 is still performing. I had the pleasure of seeing him doing his one-man show back in June in London, actually – he and the show were quite fun! When he sang some songs from Barnum, including this one, I was amazed that I still remembered the lyrics, a mere 35+ years after I used to listen the album as a teenager:

The colors of my life
Are bountiful and bold,
The purple glow of indigo,
The gleam of green and gold.
The splendor of the sunrise,
The dazzle of a flame,
The glory of a rainbow
I’d put ‘em all to shame …

… The colors of my life
Will leave a shining light
To show the way.
— from The Colors of My Life, lyrics by Michael Stewart

That’s a long-winded way of getting to today’s post. As I was reviewing more of my photos from San Sebastián last night, that song popped into my head, because I was really struck with all the different colors in the photos. A sample is below, where I offer everything from the “glow of indigo” to “the gleam of green and gold” and beyond. True, there’s no rainbow, and it’s a sunset not a sunrise. Nevertheless, I think you’ll agree that the colors in the photos below provide “a shining light to show the way” … to scenes from San Sebastián.

Enjoy.