The color of the sky at sunset with the blue sky darkening, the streaks of red.

The shade of blue the sky is on a hot summer day.

I have a very vivid memory of a hot summer day when I was a little kid--someone brought this enormous, succulent-looking watermelon cold to my uncle's house. When it was split open, I remember the halves being this beautiful, intense, dewy pink...nothing has ever looked so refreshing or aesthetic pleasing to me since. Each piece was like a rosy icicle.

A color that was beautiful and frightening at the same time, a huge grayish-black thunderhead that appeared in the sky when my grandmother, sister and I were in Iowa for a family reunion and we were staying at my Great-Aunt May's farm. It appeared not too long before a tornado struck. We took shelter in the root cellar and I remember how suddenly quiet the air got just before the tornado came. I'd heard the phrase, "the calm before the storm" before, but until then I didn't really know what it meant. When the twister was approaching we could see huge forks of lightning striking and my sister and I wanted to stay outside and watch the storm (we were young and didn't realize the danger), but we made to go into the root cellar. The colors of the sky were so intriguing and I've never seen anything like them since. Blacks, grays, reds interpersed with lightning strikes.

The intense blue of the ocean as seen from my window

The pale blue of the first light of day. To me, it is the color of beginnings.

A collaboration - it was a picture of Autumn leaves in Canada. Although there were many colours I think colours work in relation to their surrounding colour therefore I think a collection of 7 or 8 different colours can - if you think about it - be classed as a colour.

The orange glow of Mt. Sinai at dawn.

I hope Toto made it through OK.

Dark blue neon, almost purple.

that turquoise sea green color or maybe sunset purple

Black.

I forgot the name of it, it's a purpleish/lavenderish color. It's great. Ahhh...

A deep dark but bright at the same time blue

He did, but some of the neighbor's chickens weren't so lucky!

Periwinkle?

One afternoon it was raining and the sky was bright gold. The grass looked bright green. I felt like I was inside a painting. Looking back, it is still surreal- I could have only dreamed something so beautiful.

The color of the sea in Cancun, a clear deep turquoise. Or maybe the reddish purple of a sunset. Or the bright blue of a peacock feather. Or the shade of an orchid.

The dark grey colour of a rain soaked parking garage.

Midnight Black with a flash of dark sapphire and iridescent bluebottle green
Like a crow I saw in a slash of sunlight once

Some of the colors on my neighbor's latest iTunes (constantly moving computer visuals for the Mac computer).

Cool, isn't it!

When I was in the 1st grade, my best friend's grandpa died. I didn't really understand death at that time, so I asked older brothers about it. They told me that when someone died, you never got to see them or talk to them again. This upset me a great deal. I visited my grandparents (father's parents) a lot and the next time I went over I had a heart to heart talk with my Granddaddy. I told him that Allison's grandpa had died and I was scared that he would die. I wanted him to live forever. He told me that he couldn't live forever. That people have to die to make room on the earth for new people to be born. He told me he didn't know when he'd die, but that when he did, he'd never leave me. He said his spirit would always surround me. I asked him how I would know that he was still near me and he told me that when I was feeling lonely or when I missed him to look up in the sky and he would give me a sign. He never did tell me what that sign would be, but I never doubted that it would be there. About 3 1/2 years later, my Granddaddy passed away. I took it really hard. He was the first person that I was really close to that died. The day he died we all went to be with my Grandma. People were coming in and out constantly and everybody kept looking at me all sad. I couldn't handle it anymore. I went out into the backyard and sat in the old swing that Granddaddy used to push me on. I was very sad and started to cry, then out of the blue, I remembered what my Granddaddy had told me. I looked up into the sky and saw the most beautiful color there ever was. It was blue, purple, and red. I had never seen a color like it before. I knew right then that it was a sign from my Granddaddy. To this day, when I'm feeling lonely or missing my Granddaddy I can go outside and look up into the sky and I see those same colors. I have never seen them when I wasn't looking for that sign that my Granddaddy is still near.

Sorry for the long story, but I thought everybody would understand more if I told the story behind it.

A-ha -- you have one, huh? I have iTunes 2, but he has, I believe, iTunes 3. I have an older Mac G3, so some of the newer goodies will not run on mine, plus I do not have enough memory for all the latest stuff either. I often listen to music via my iTunes whether or not I'm watching the visuals. My neighbor's got one of those yummy flat screens so everything naturally looks better on those anyway. I have a 20-inch older monitor -- big, but not as cool as the flat newer ones.

the color of the ocean in Bali
the color of the Milky Way splashed across the clear night sky
the color of the western sky as the sun sets on a crisp fall day
the skin of a pumpkin ripening in the garden
the leaves on an autumn tree

i think the colors that i saw in the walls of the Grand Canyon and the changes in them thruout the day were the most beautiful.

If I can count white, then absolutely crisp, blinding white. A sheet of paper in the sun.

Hmmm....I can't think of one in particular. I think texture has a lot to do with color, and then there are undertomes and stuff like that. It's too hard to just pick the most beautiful color. There are a lot of variables.

That is an AWESOME story! You sure had a wonderful grandpa!

I do not but my SO and Daughter both do.

Royal blue velvet.

It's always behind very expensive jewelry.

That's a nice story! You are a very strong person and I know it!!

Remember playing "Colored Eggs" in grammar school? It was always fun to pick the most bizarre color. Baby blue, neon pick, and dandelion were some of the faves. My personal fave was periwinkle. No one ever guessed periwinkle.

The blue-green of the sea in Lindos Bay. I would love to be able to wake up to that every day.

Periwinkle

The sky just before sun begins to rise.
Before the rosy dawn part I mean...the blue sapphire sky it's beautiful.
That's only an example,there's lots of beautiful colors out there.

But you get to play with it... right? Oh how I want iPod 'cause I have carried around a Walkman since they first existed, and also iPhoto 'cause I have all these old-house fotos that are not in order, but they are on various CD-Roms, and I'd love to put 'em in order of street location and get professional foto books made up for a small fee by Apple. My neighbor had this latter done for his Hawaii vacation and it was all done SO well.

Yes, iPod sounds like bliss!

Yep, for someone who is so into music like I am, this would be pure heaven -- and now there's a better iPod out. Jeez, I thought the first one was such a great deal and here I am unable to afford either of 'em.

One's perception of a color doesn't contain true properties of that color. The impression of any color depends on the relationship of adjacent colors (and a variety of other boring psychological factors).
so...
The revised question #23 would inquire about the MEMORY connection of a given color scheme.

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What's that something like Kantian phenomena and noumena?
I'm an humanist,I don't care about the "real" color,I care about how it looks to human eyes.

I put Kristal's made up color in here to see if she would find it.

Emerald green, like the green on a banker's lamp.

i have seen lots of beautiful colors!

clear

i don't know. ummm.. the early morning sky. the sunset. the color of someone's deep beautiful eyes. there's too many.

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the blue found here

bright colors like orange and yellow dominate my mind although somber colors of silver and gray sooth me to me the soft white of a brides dress or any painting by Van Gough seem to make me drift