122-COLOR ORANGE - Lecture Traditional Cache

This will be a series of 9 groups, each have 3 parts for a total of 27 caching hides.  The Title of the series is Lessons in Color.

In developing this Series, I was prompted to actually research what do the colors really mean. I have always like etymology, but more than that, I like the phrases, idioms and expressions that really have their roots from something more than just commonplace current day usage.

You are looking for a matchstick holder.

This is not intended to actually be complete by any means since most words have meanings rooted deep in history that may have changed through the years and also crosses cultures in their meanings.….this has been just a method for developing a new hiding series for our area (that will be a little unusual).

I, the CO, am the lecturer and the leader of this field trip down Highway 63 in Union County.  The family PEZ has agreed to provide my students for this adventure.  At the end of each group will be my party planner to provide the final color connection who may provide treats or favors to take home or just to take it easy.

There will be some differences but also sameness.  The camo and visibility will be different and finding should be very easy so just enjoy the idea.

So, here we go……………By the way----at the bottom will be other information you might be interested in.

In Europe and America, ORANGE is commonly associated with festivity and amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, fire, activity, danger, taste and aroma, the autumn season and Protestantism (because of the participation of the House of Orange in the French Wars of Religion).  In Asia, it is an important symbolic color of Buddhism and Hinduism.

The flag of the City of New York has an ORANGE stripe to remember the Dutch Colonists who founded the city. In both the 20^th and 21^st centuries, the color ORANGE has had both positive and negative associations.

High visibility of ORANGE made it a popular color of certain kinds of clothing and equipment, i.e. inflatable life jackets, which could be spotted by search and rescue planes. After WWII, these jackets became common on both civilian and naval vessels of all sizes and on aircraft that flew over water.  ORANGE is widely worn by workers on highways and by cyclists to avoid being hit by cars and for the flight suits of the crews of space shuttles and the International Space Station.

During the Vietnam War, a chemical herbicide called Agent ORANGE was widely sprayed from aircraft to remove forest and jungle cover beneath where enemy soldiers were believed to be hiding. The chemical was not ORANGE but took its name from the color of the steel drums in which it was stored.

The color of carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, oranges, melons and many other fruits and vegetables comes from carotenes involving the photosynthetic process of transmitting light energy from which plants absorb from chlorophyll.  Since ORANGE is associated with good flavor, many companies add ORANGE food coloring to improve the appearance of packaged foods.  ORANGE pigments and dyes are added also to many ORANGE sodas, juices, cheeses, snack foods, butter and margarine, breakfast cereals, ice cream, yogurt, jam and candy.  It is also often added to children’s medicine and to chicken feed to make the egg yolks more ORANGE.

In Eastern religions, ORANGE was the color of transformation.  Yellow and red were compared to light and fire, spirituality and sensuality, seemingly opposite but really complementary.  Out of the interaction between the two came ORANGE, the color of transformation.  Monks and holy men across Asia commonly wear clothing within the ORANGE range.

In Mythology, ORANGE is used as depicting ritual madness and ecstasy.  Clowns have long worn ORANGE wigs.

ORANGE is the color most easily seen in dim light or against water, making it the color of choice for life rafts, life jackets or buoys.  It is worn by people wanting to be seen, including highway workers and lifeguards.  Prisoners are also sometimes dressed in ORANGE clothing to make them easier to spot during an escape.  The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is painted international ORANGE to make it more visible in the fog.

ORANGE is sometimes used as a color warning of possible danger of calling for caution.  A skull against an ORANGE background means a toxic substance or poison.  ORANGE is used to measure the severity of a terrorist threat for Department of Homeland Security.

ORANGE is the color of harvest and autumn leaves, with Halloween and Thanksgiving and is the color of carved pumpkins used to celebrate the holidays.

ORANGE regalia is associated with the field of engineering.  Because of its symbolic meaning of activity, ORANGE is often used as the color of political and social movements.  It’s also a popular color for sports teams.  In Christianity, ORANGE represents the sin of gluttony.

In the US Army, ORANGE has traditionally been associated with the U. S. Cavalry and also the U.S. Signal Corps.

SOME AREAS WILL HAVE RECOGNIZABLE PULL-OFFS.  MOST DO NOT. HOWEVER, THE SHOULDERS ARE WIDE AND SOLID

CACHES IN THE LECTURES WILL MOSTLY BE HANGING BUT NOT ALL

CACHES IN THE STUDENT SECTIONS WILL ALL BE HANGING

CACHES IN THE FINAL COLOR CONNECTION WILL MOSTLY BE LOW, BUT NOT ALL

THERE WILL NOT BE TOO MANY HINTS IN THE ENTIRE 27 CACHES OF THE SERIES.  COLOR WILL MOSTLY SAY IT ALL.