[image] Since we’re all on an organasmic color kick around here lately, let’s bust it open and move along to a bigger Crayola box. Limerick? I just thought the timing was right to pick this hue.

To be honest I think there are enough threads with enough colors already, they end up being photo based leading to visual noise and hard to enjoy.

Ah, does that mean I can’t use my Puce collection? To be honest, this post was meant to be a tongue-in-colourful-cheek response to the colour madness as I agree with you, and I would not be adverse to giving it a rest. (Hmm. Maybe I wasn’t quite sarcastic enough? That’s a tough one to get in witho…

[image] dgwdoesthings: there are enough threads with enough colors already, they end up being photo based leading to visual noise Not to mentuion playing fast and loose with the color names. Not everything posted to the “yellow” thread is really yellow, not everying in the “orange” thread is …

Excuse me, I now have to say That I learned a new meaning today Of a word that I thought Meant a poem, and not Yellowish-green. Does that make sense? No way!

I’ve been waiting patiently for the green one to come round. I’ve got several pictures of leaves.

but you have ‘name that green’ first ;~))

Personally I enjoy those threads for showing me astonishing organisms in taxa that I will never encounter, just as I enjoy seeing them in the perennially popular “what’s your best photo?” and “what’s your favorite lifer?” topics. It’s easy enough to dismiss a new topic that doesn’t interest me, or…

Fair enough. The voice of moderation is one that should be heard more often. But not… too often, I guess?

I found the color run fun; it came at great timing. It really helped with the (maybe close to) end of winter. The tough time when the snow is unsafe to walk on. Now the maple sap is running (and not, it’s all dicey temps now) and there’s enough snow gone to get around better… weather permitting; to…

Just to clarify, I meant that it is easy to use the “dismiss” button and the “mute” button for topics of no interest, and didn’t mean to suggest that I thought anyone was being dismissive!

Limerick? (We're looking at you, chromophiliacs!)

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isopodguy March 15, 2025, 8:17pm 13

For those of you discussing wether or not these color threads are a good idea, you may want to take a look at this thread and maybe move your discussion there.

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