Chester, England features buildings with unique architecture with orange bricks, some combined with a Tudor style.
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Bright Orange Guzmania
Guzmania conifera has a bright orange and yellow pine-cone-shaped flower head with deep green leaves. Guzmania is a genus of over 120 species of flowering plants in the bromeliad family. There is another plant in this family that is edible and can be found in grocery stores all over the United States. That’s right, pineapples are also bromeliads!
Costa Rica Green Iguana
The green iguana is a reptile that is found mainly in rain forests of northern Central America, several parts of Costa Rica, Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, and southern Brazil. Adults can range in color from green to brown to almost black. During breeding season (Late fall/early winter), mature male iguanas take on an orange coloration, along with their heavy jowls and dewlap, in order to attract mates.
Costa Rica Birds – Tovi Parakeet
The orange-chinned parakeet seen in Costa Rica, also known as the Tovi parakeet, is a small mainly green parrot and some of the wing feathers are brown/bronze.
Indian Flowers – Blend of Colors
India has always been exalted and remembered fondly as the country of symbolic colors. The symbolism of color stands out and controls every aspect of life in India, be it religion, politics, festivals, or celebrations. In India, be it the north, south, west, or east, color and culture go hand in hand. Flowers in India are no exception. Here is a sample of the traditional deep orange and yellow color combination in a flower.
Yellowstone – Colorful Prismatic
The iconic image of Yellowstone is an expansive spring with rainbow-like colors radiating from its center, dominated by a fiery orange hue at its edges. Though these dazzlingly painted hot springs seem fit only for picture books, their colors come from very real, and very earthly, microscopic creatures.
Hiding out in the park’s hot springs — where temperatures are high enough to blister your skin and as acidic as liquid in a car battery — are heat-loving microbes. And they’re thriving. Where you see rings of color, there are, most of the time, rings of different bacteria, each group adapted to the conditions, such as temperature and pH (how acidic a solution is) of their environments.
Flowers – Bright Orange
Orange lily (Lilium bulbiferum) a perennial; and Bird-of-paradise, one of the world’s best-known plants, bring out bright orange hues to the flowering gardens.
Moon – Bright Orange
A bright, color-unenhanced, orange full moon up against a dark sky
Coloring the Clouds
Sunset artistically paints the clouds and creates an orange lining at a lake in Estero, Florida
Eyes of a Eurasian Eagle Owl
The Eurasian eagle-owl’s large, very distinctive, orange eyes provide excellent night vision. This male bird is at the Carolina Raptor Center, North Carolina.
Eyes of a Eurasian Eagle Owl Male
Bright Orange Full Moon
Though not concurrent with the present phase of the moon, this photo of the full moon’s orange glow reflects the image of the sun and almost creates a fiery ball …
Bright Orange Full Moon