Daily Prompt: Yellow

Hi everyone! Hope all is well.

Yellow is the sun.

Wow! The lemons are such a bright yellow.

Do you remember the song “Mellow Yellow” by Donovan? It goes like this:

I’m just mad about Saffron
Saffron’s mad about me
I’m just mad about Saffron
She’s just mad about me

They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow

What is the meaning of “Mellow Yellow”?

According to Donovan’s notes accompanying the album Donovan’s Greatest Hits, the rumor that one could get high from smoking dried banana skins was started by Country
Joe McDonald in 1966, and Donovan heard the rumor three weeks before “Mellow Yellow” was released as a single.