Chartreuse

Our new colour scheme at Twelve by Twelve is "chartreuse".
I found a picture that I really like...I took it in Kyoto last summer and I can already see a few ways to make good use of it.
But of course, this word, chartreuse, always makes me think of Stendhal and his novel "La Chartreuse de Parme". I don't think I've got the book here. My copy must still be somewhere in my parents' house. I feel like reading it again.