Next time you’re heading over to Galati & Sons or Wild Poppy on Wray Avenue, check out the giant orange mural on Attfield Street before you go it’s bound to cheer you up.

Orange is a hot summer day
It’s a strenuous hike to a well-earned view
Of a rugged stone pinnacle

Orange is a twisting canyon
Of jutting peaks
A sunset frozen in time, in a rock wall

Orange is satisfaction
From sweat and strain
The awe-inspiring result

It’s exhaustion and exultation

Orange is renewed zest
Peach juice dripping off the chin
And the scent of citrus peels

Orange is the end of a perfect day
It’s an ephemeral sunset
Melting away beyond
The fixed stone canvas

And orange is the unspoken promise
Of another brilliant day

Lisa J. Parker