1 When you first get a bruise, it's kind of reddish as the blood appears under the skin.  Within 1 or 2 days, the hemoglobin (an iron-containing substance that carries oxygen) in the blood changes and your bruise turns bluish-purple or even blackish.
balmy-mild and pleasant; balmy days and nights; the climate was mild and conducive to life or growth; a soft breeze. mild, soft. clement - (of weather or climate) physically mild; clement weather.
What is the meaning of COLITAS in the song hotel california by eagles. I'm trying to translate this song but i don't fully understand that line: On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air ..