When are trees not green?

Here we are at Countdown to Color Day 1 which means tomorrow you’ll not only see the usual words of wisdom by the Cosmos, but you’ll also be able to participate in the daily color communication too. This will be a work in progress (mostly on my part on the back end; out of sight) as I “build” this up over time. So be sure to come back tomorrow and try it out!

A few days ago I asked readers if “grass was green”. If you said “yes” you are right and if you said “no” you are also right; however, you need the correct “why” to back up your answer. I share a few reasons why trees are green and not green without getting too involved in the psychology and other traits of color but just give you something to think about.

Color is a product of light; you need light to see color. So when the lights are out or it’s dark outside; during the night, trees are not green. Shine a flash(light) on them and voila, they are green!

Trees change the color of their leaves in the fall; they are not green then.

When a printer creates colors such as the color green, he or she adds colors to create green, so in a sense, it isn’t really green; it is all the other colors. The same is true when for instance creating colored light as in stage lighting we are adding colors (in a different process) to create green and again, it’s all these other colors.

Trees are green because they’ve always been “green” and we always “think” of them as being green.

There are more ways to think of how green can be green or not, whether applied to trees or your favorite ugly Christmas sweater. I just wanted you to be aware that when you do your daily color communication that you could spend a little time with your “color of the day” and know that what you first see is not always what you see first!

Until we start our color journey tomorrow,

Make it a great day!

Ter 

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