We’ve had some colorful “Photo Challenges” lately. Yellow, per our last post, and now, its complement. (Above: Evening falls on the Hudson River, October, as Jean paddles north toward Hudson River Islands State Park. The next morning, our friend, Vlad, leaves camp at daybreak to paddle through the mist.)
Here’s a geekapedic fact: As far as optics are concerned, violet is a real color. It occupies its own place at the end of the visible spectrum, and it was one of the seven spectral colors of the spectrum first described by Isaac Newton in 1672. On Monday, it showed up in the shadows of big trees, little kids, and a pair of geeks during our tromp around snowy Davenport Park in New Rochelle.
2 Geeks @ 3 Knots 
Quite the Winter Wonderland over there… Where are the XC skiis? I liked your Roy Gee Biv description… That’s ROYGBIV… My daughter and I were just talking about Newton this AM… Is there anything that guy didn’t discover?
I dunno, marshmallows? Then again, they’re a plant… which Newton might’ve known about. How did it come about, your conversation this morning? I think we just talked about Metro North!
What! It shocks you that there are geeker than thou’s out west!! Actually.. Not sure what happened to the daughter… Took her to Bob’s Red Mill a while back to earlier in the year and she has been talking pulleys, gears, angles and forces ever since she saw the old equipment there…She’s a senior and heading of to university next year to study mechanical engineering.. You should be here for dinner when we get to listen to a lecture on the space – time continuum… Pass the butter please..
Not shocked at all! The wild, geeky west? For sure! JPL pals, ASU relations, and now you. 🙂 Yay!! Alex is a mechanical engineer… a virtual cheerleading squad for your daughter, and others. Where does she plan to go to school? What’s this space/time continuum lecture we’re missing out on?
Oregon Tech (OIT).. Small university in Klamath Falls. They have a great relationship with industry partners. Not the most popular university in Oregon, no football team! As for the lecture… Hate to admit it but my knowledge base of physics is limited. Biology is more my strength.. Her enthusiastic rendition of physics principles that she was learning was a cross between a basketball cheerleader and livestock auctioneer.. It left my wife and I sitting at the table wondering how we could ask her to do the dishes after this event!.. Where does / What does Alex do in his Engineering world?
Wow, your daughter sounds formidable. Go, science girls, go! Go, football-agnostics! Hurray, OIT!
In answer to your question, Alex is an energy efficiency engineer at CodeGreen NYC. Hey, why don’t we connect via email? I’m at ccjeanko@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you!
Jean
Hi Jean,
Do you post your future outings. I’d like to join you sometimes. You may remember me singing ” I do like to be besides the sea side” in Maine. Attached is a short movie I made from Costa RIca, thinking of being beside the sea.
Nick Nicholas Clarke IMG_0207 – Copy.MOV
Hello, Nick! By all means, let’s paddle! We’ll send a heads up via email.
Can you please resend the link to your movie? Didn’t seem to attach here…
And if it’s not too much to ask, the lyrics to “I do like to be besides the sea side” — I know you tried to teach us over breakfast, but we’ve forgotten! See you seaside soon! J&A