robin egg blue is a web-safe color. do you know what a web-safe color is? i didn’t.  so i looked it up. a web-safe color is one of the 216 colors that will appear exactly the same on any computer monitor. the thing i like best about web-safe colors is that their opposites, non-web-safe colors need to be generated anyway, and they are generated by a process called “dithering.”  which means they have little geometric patterns overlaid onto them in contrasting colors so that the eye perceives, for instance, a red background with blue “dithering” as purple. personally, i just like that the poor mama robin can simply lay her egg in robin egg blue,and get on with the miracle of birth, without any further dithering.

robin egg and nest

hugo, minnesota

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