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November 22nd - Colors |
You always hear about the beautiful foliage in New England. George and I have been hiking in Virginia. Starting in Harpers Ferry, going on to Damascus, and hiking through the countryside… it has taken almost six weeks just to get through Virginia. The whole time we have been hiking the foliage has been unbelievable. We have had six weeks of the most incredible colors under our feet and all around us. The reds, oranges, and browns, all are just gorgeous. What makes the colors? I mean, light has something to do with it. The color white has every other color in it. But, what happens with the leaves? Does every leaf have every color in it? Are leaves green until some chemical change happens to bring out new and different colors in them? Colors are miraculous. Do animals see colors the way we do? I have heard that they don't or maybe only some of them do. Do fishes see color? Do birds see color? And, we know there are other bands of colors like ultraviolet that our eyes cannot see normally. Do more colors exist that we don't know about yet? People did not know about ultraviolet or infrared colors seven hundred years ago. Are we going to find out years from now that there are other spectrums of colors that we cannot see that other organisms can see? Or, maybe there is something that we will be invented through technology that will enable to see those colors that we cannot naturally see now. Isn't color extraordinary? |
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