Green

This post is in honor of the tiny Tuckahoe town parade, which may or may not have been cancelled due to the rain (and yesterday was so pretty!).

On The Color Green...

What exactly is "green?" It is approximately 525 nm wavelength. It is the 'G' in the abbreviation of "Roy G. Biv." It is half of yellow and cyan. It is the color of Kermit the Frog and Oscar the Grouch, two of my favorite muppets. It is (according to Tim) the color you wear "on Wednesdays, if you are horny" - don't ask me, maybe it's a Texas thing! Aliens (of the extraterrestrial variety) are sometimes referred to as "little green men." Green symbolizes go in its use in traffic signals, railway signals, and ship signals. It is the color of nature. Medieval minesongs described green as the color of love.

Green was the favorite color of Napoleon and the green wallpaper in his exile home in St. Helena became his undoing. His premature death was not the work of a poisoner but was caused by the noxious fumes emanating from the bright green wallpaper. White and red in the Italian flag are the ancient colors of Italy, whereas green stands for the right of Freedom and for Equality. Green is the color of the prophet Mohammed who himself declared it his favorite color and who's cloak and turban were green. Green is the national color of Irish Catholics as opposed to orange as the color of the protestant Orangemans who conquered Ireland led by William of Orange.

And green also is the color of Ireland, or the "Emerald Isle." In fact, the greens in Ireland put Crayola to shame! The picture at the top was taken "among the greens" in Blarney, Ireland.