The Moods of Colour

Okanagan Okanogan

Look at the colour of this water.

Pretty nice stuff, for sure. Look at the colour of this water.

Fun stuff, isn’t it. And this water.

Why, it’s hardly there! And this…It’s coming to life. And this …

Glorious! We could go on all day with this kind of fun, but think of this: that’s two stretches of water, not five, on two separate days. Here, I’ll show you…

Of course, in the cultural manners in which we’re all trained today, I’m being poetic here. I assure you, I’m being something more than that. To begin again, my moment of awareness looked a bit like this …

and a bit like this …

… all at the same time! I realized in a flash that the images, of oregon grape (upper) and poison ivy (lower), were the same colour.

To unravel this odd (to scientifically-trained eyes) colour shift, maybe it’s best to go back to the water.

Ah…

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~ by Sable Aradia on February 28, 2015.