According to Wikipedia, orange is the color most “commonly associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, fire, activity, danger, taste, and aroma.”
That pretty much sums it up, except for the connection to riding bikes through the woods, an activity that routinely makes possible such unconventional associations, especially those featuring amusement, fire, and extroverts.
As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Joby Lafkey Corporation, Point83 performed its due diligence by opening the annual shareholders meeting with an only slightly-confused ramble through the forest pathways of Discovery Park, where, thanks to Boy Scout techniques and “Boy Scout water,” a roaring conflagration was made manifest—and a pretty big fire was lit, too.
It’s not every ride where handmade tacos are delivered al fresco and served from a wicker basket to all those assembled, but you kinda come to expect such unexpected delights on an evening where the all-but-full moon appears behind a thin scrim of clouds through the bare branches of a mighty oak poised to burst out in full leaf any day now.
The Joby Juice did its usual magic, as evidenced by more than one pantsless reveler circling the flames, and even though there were several exoduses (exodi?) of tired riders as the evening wore on, the midnight hour (at least) came and went with a score or so of merry makers still making merry and, indeed, continuing to add fuel to the fire, literally, as well as figuratively.
I overheard the guest of honor mention to someone that he’d spent the decade of his thirties boozing and biking with many of those in attendance, and it occurred to me that I’d done the same for much of my fifties, evidence, I think, that such saffron-hued amusements clearly stand the test of time.
In mythological paintings (again, according to the Internetz), Bacchus (aka Dionysus) the god of wine, ritual madness, and ecstasy, is traditionally shown dressed in orange.
Yes, but does his outfit have high-visibility reflective piping, too?
That pretty much sums it up, except for the connection to riding bikes through the woods, an activity that routinely makes possible such unconventional associations, especially those featuring amusement, fire, and extroverts.
As a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Joby Lafkey Corporation, Point83 performed its due diligence by opening the annual shareholders meeting with an only slightly-confused ramble through the forest pathways of Discovery Park, where, thanks to Boy Scout techniques and “Boy Scout water,” a roaring conflagration was made manifest—and a pretty big fire was lit, too.
It’s not every ride where handmade tacos are delivered al fresco and served from a wicker basket to all those assembled, but you kinda come to expect such unexpected delights on an evening where the all-but-full moon appears behind a thin scrim of clouds through the bare branches of a mighty oak poised to burst out in full leaf any day now.
The Joby Juice did its usual magic, as evidenced by more than one pantsless reveler circling the flames, and even though there were several exoduses (exodi?) of tired riders as the evening wore on, the midnight hour (at least) came and went with a score or so of merry makers still making merry and, indeed, continuing to add fuel to the fire, literally, as well as figuratively.
I overheard the guest of honor mention to someone that he’d spent the decade of his thirties boozing and biking with many of those in attendance, and it occurred to me that I’d done the same for much of my fifties, evidence, I think, that such saffron-hued amusements clearly stand the test of time.
In mythological paintings (again, according to the Internetz), Bacchus (aka Dionysus) the god of wine, ritual madness, and ecstasy, is traditionally shown dressed in orange.
Yes, but does his outfit have high-visibility reflective piping, too?
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