Mar 17 2022 - Irish Green

 

What colour is Irish green?  It is also called Irish flag green, and shamrock green.  I went hunting for the colour codes and find the hex colour codes for Irish Green just like science magic. Web colours came along with colour displays. Wikipedia says that in the mid-1990s displays were capable of 256 colours and that's when web-safe colours were determined and a standard was created.  Since then the standard has moved to 24-bit TrueColor - it  uses 8 bits each of Red, Green and Blue.  How many colour variations are there?  16,777,216 compared to ten million colours that the human eye can discriminate.   I remember the green cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays in the 1970s and when we got colour screens it was like a miracle.  Wouldn't it be amazing to put a current day screen side-by-side with one of the old ones and see the differences? I expect there will be many happy people everywhere celebrating St. Patrick's Day.  My thinking is that it will become known as the 'coming-out' of the Pandemic milestone.  Perhaps a rainbow and pot of gold is needed to make the coming-out permanent.

What kind of bow can’t be tied? A rainbow. Where can you always find gold? In the dictionary. What do you call a fake Irish stone? A sham-rock! Why are leprechauns so good at gardening? They have green thumbs! Here are our pictures today - look at the Irish Green shades above.  It seems there's not that much Irish going in in these images. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Mar 17 2021 - How Many Shamrocks in a Collection?

 

Today is being celebrated everywhere - somehow St. Patrick's Day is very popular.  It isn't actually "somehow"  - it is because of the U.S. with its large Irish populations took on parades with gusto.  Turning things green encompasses more than beer: the Sydney Opera House took part in displaying green this year.   Its symbol, the Shamrock, is Oxalis regnellii and has the  clover-shaped leaves that have come to symbolize the good luck Shamrocks are known for.  Even though it is clover that is the three-leaved plant that St. Patrick picked to explain the Holy Trinity.  For four-leaf clovers, their luck has a history. Druids believed that the four leaves represented the four elements of alchemy: earth, fire, water, and air. They used them as charms against bad spirits. "Four-leaf-clover-collector record holder Edward Martin would also agree on its luck; he’s found 160,000. And anyone who’s knelt in a clover field to beat the 1-in-10,000 odds might also say it’s lucky. But historians, botanists, and Irish purists all agree on this: When you find one, don’t call it a shamrock." Guinness World Records says that he has a collection of 111,060 as of May 2007 and has been collecting since 1999.  What a lot of cataloguing!  How do you store them?   I went looking and found lots of possibilities. I don't think he's cast them in resin or on the inside of bottle caps, or made silver key chains out of them.   There is a blurry picture of his catalogue records - it is HERE.  Did you know there are records for the most number of leaves on a clover - 21-leaf clover and 56-leaf clover pictures show up on google images.   More diptychs today. Purchase at: FAA - marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Mar 17 2020 - St. Patrick's Day Green

I wonder how St. Patrick's Day is unfolding on the Emerald Isle.  Livestreaming is the offer of the day. The Dropkick Murphys are in the headlines for scheduling a livestream of their concert in the evening of St. Patrick's Day.  There will be lots of livestreaming during the next few weeks. There are websites that still have all the St. Patrick's Day events listed and they seem eerie and even creepy now.  This is an interesting time for online announcements - things not updated at all versus things updated by the minute - especially those twitter feeds - you can see the #coronavirusoutbreak posts here if you want to see just how diverse the posts can be. As I looked about for the response to St. Patrick's Day without its celebrations, I came upon a picture of Niagara Falls lit up for St. Patrick's Day.  What website was this on?  On the rte.ie website - that's in Ireland. So I checked out the official illumination schedule.  It shows tonight's as starting at 7:30 and going until 1:00am with the St. Patrick's Day Global Greening - colour green - every hour for 15 minutes.  The detailed schedule is at infoniagara.com There are many countries - 48 last year - that have illuminations for St. Patrick's Day - the emerald London Eye is famous. Will Disneyland still have its illumination despite being closed? The famous green beer will have to flow at home.  One hopes there is some green food dye left over after making the crystal egg geodes yesterday or purchased in preparation of making the crystal egg geodes.  I expect there is lots of dye in the grocery store.  The shelves are a compelling insight into our fears and responses.  No toilet paper, no frozen vegetables, and no pasta or rice.  Lots of Atlantic Salmon and other meat, lots of vegetables such as broccoli.  Surprise. Every holiday has its plant, and the shamrock is represented by the showy hybridized Oxalis. It is the first picture in the collage.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Does the Dollar Store still has green things for St. Patrick's Day?  I noticed last year and this year there is a lot of hats and head bands that bring out the silliness of celebrating green.   The  shade of green that represents St. Patrick's Day is 'spring green'.  The actual saint, St. Patrick, was represented by the colour blue.  Green became the official colour of Ireland, so St. Patrick's Day followed.  The official colour is Pantone's green PMS 347.  Green is the largest of the colour families and has the most varieties that are discernible to the human eye. Here are some of St. Patrick's Day jokes: What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck What do you get when you do the Irish jig at McDonalds? A Shamrock Shake Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun? Because they're always a little short Why don't you iron 4-Leaf clovers? Because you don't want to press your luck I went out drinking on St Patricks Day, so I took a bus home... That may not be a big deal to you, but I've never driven a bus before source: Jokes4us.com