A week or so ago I blogged about Crayola crayons, based on information published in my trivia calendar. Today, I am informed by my west coast brother, is National Crayola Day. This time I'm not reminded of the crayons themselves but of the colors, and one specific incident. Several years ago, an old empty power plant here in Fort Wayne was transformed into Science Central, an excellent hands-on children's science museum. That was brilliant I think, and in another bold move, the five big black smokestacks on top of the old building were painted in bright colors that have always seemed like crayon colors to me. Red, orange, yellow, green and blue, those chimneys march across the sky, and I have a perfect view of them from my balcony. By a wonderful coincidence, I was listening to the evening news the day after I moved into my apartment when the newsperson announced that starting that evening the chimneys on Science Central would be illuminated at night. I walked out on my balcony just in time to see them lit up for the first time. It was the perfect welcome to my new home, and I still admire them every night.
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