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Show Just Stuff by Jan What colors! All my life I have associated brilliant colors with spring and fall, but this last week I have found that winter is full of colors, besides the usually grey and white. Bitter cold is the warmest it's been up here at Logan the last little while, In fact, it would have to warm up to freeze! With the freezing, frosty weather, comes an array of colors, reds, blues, pinks, yellows, this myriad of colors is usually seen while walking to and from classes on the noses, cheeks and ears of fellow students. Polished pink and rosy red are the two most popular colors this winter. They are in great demand and are worn by most everyone who ventures out in the crisp cutting air, Noses are the most popular place to wear the reddish colors while the pretty pinks adorn peoples' cheeks. Ears, of course vary anywhere from a pale pink to a russet red. Of course, there's the jaundiced yellow look or the "teeth chattering chalk white" color, both found on noses, ears and cheeks. Have you ever noticed that not everyone turns the same color in the same place? Yesterday I saw a guy with a bright red nose, but the tip was as white as could be. He was walking with a girl who looked like she was wearing red gloves, but after a closer look I could tell she wasn't wearing gloves, another guy had candy-cane striped ears, going from dark red to a freezy-cold white. Some people don't turn any shade of red or pink. They go from the healthy flesh color to a light shade of frost-bitten blue. Of course this is usually worn on the lips. One person even went so far as to freeze patriotically, with blue lips, a white nose and bright red cheeks. When you walk outside in the morning and take that first breath of air, you know your lungs are about to break into shattered icicles. If you go to school with wet hair it's a mass of ice by the time you reach class. If your Levis are damp you end up with stiff britches. It's been too cold to ski, too cold to ice skate, too cold to go tubing or build snowmen, and of course it's too cold to do homework. In fact, it's even kept some home from classes! We've been forced to curl up in warm blankets and sip hot chocolate es Jack Frost paints masterpeices, not on the outside, but on the inside of the windows. |