On Being a
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Joyce Bupp
Orange eggs just don’t cut it.
Orange is for heat, for shock
value, for alert. Orange works for
pumpkins and stunning vistas of
October-frosted leaves. Orange is
the juice many of us sip with
breakfast or snacks. Orange is for
safety, like life jackets and slow
moving-vehicle signs and traffic
cones.
Orange is not for eggs.
Orange stirs alarms. It’s near
the top of the Homeland Security
terror alert color-code alert sys
tem. Remember the notorious
Agent Orange, linked to the Viet
nam War and mysterious ail
ments lingering in the health of
many veterans?
Orange turning up in those
übiquitious plastic eggs of the
season just always seems strangly
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out of place. Orange has its own
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Like, yellow. What’s more
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sunshine?
Yellow speckles the season,
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brightening shady, shrubby
nooks, and smiling from bou
quets. Yellow are the flowers of
forsythia, incredibly durable
shrubs which tolerate just about
any indignity of weather or prun
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whacking the dickens out of clus
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lips.
Yellow in its brightest, most
stunning shade is the color of
dandelions. Even as the lingering
snow was clinging to cool, shaded
comers, dandelions were poking
their sunshine blooms up between
sfraggly, clumps of grass un The
lawn. W
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fragrant hyacinths. Pink is a
classic color for little girls to
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Easter blues are clear and
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handful of tiny bulbs I planted
probably three decades ago have
repopulated themselves dozens of
times over on a gentle slope be
hind the house. These four-inch
high scilla, or Siberian squills, are
one of the earliest things to bloom
in our yard. Their tiny, deep-blue
blossoms on threadlike stems
make a diminutive bouquet to
tuck in a tiny vase on the kitchen
counter.
Some Easter weekends, gentle
weather has coaxed out the early
red tulips, to add their bold pri
mary punch to the de!l«Se<
pastels, all set against a back
ground of lush green. A treasured
photo of our two grandsons har
kens to an Easter week£qd a few
TOU3 mo-
tulip bloom on
the place. We captured the mo
ment on film and divided up the
bouquets between two households
to enjoy.
Though we don’tTisually asso
ciate brown with foster, it plays
a pivotal role in treason.
Brown is the color of ouf-~rich
soils, source of life and food,
sponge to soak up and hold our
precious resource of water. Soil is
such a basic we rarely give it
thought, but critical to our
world’s survival.
Brown is also the color of choc
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same without a taste of brown,
lusciously-sweet, chocolate rab
bits.
We may have to rethink our
Easter color priorities here.
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