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This morning as we were driving to church, I was again struck by the beauty of God's Creation - it is spring here again, and the trees are just now starting to bud, the lawns are a luscious, healthy green (undamaged by insects and wind). All plants have started to grow and their leaves and foliage are dressed in greens from the whole range of a green color scheme, from light green hues to dark green shades and everything in between. It is one of my favorite times of the year.
It made me think of a discussion we had earlier this week.

It was about the color of a certain dress - we could not decide whether it was maroon, fuchsia or another color. We asked our son for his opinion, he said it was red and he pulled up the following chart -
This little chart says it all. The woman on the left sees so many different and interesting colors in the color scheme... however, the man sees the the colors of the rainbow... blue, yellow, green. That's it.
When my younger children see the pictures of our ancestors, they are under the assumption that our forefathers  lived in a dreary, sad and colorless world. I also have never never seen an old family portrait where any of them are smiling, they all look so somber and detached from one another even the children. Their facial expressions are rigid, serious and seemingly void of happiness and joy - probably due to the fact that the  cameras back then actually took a minute or more before they actually took the picture. Holding a smile for such a long time would have been extremely painful. It was just a better option to stay in one position or pose - or the picture would be blurred.
Our youngest son actually thought for a while that people lived in a black and white world - that there were no colors, because all pictures from that time era are in black and white or sepia colors.