Since trees and the leaves they employ on a seasonal basis can't be bothered to join a social media platform to let Illinois residents know when the optimum time for Fall foliage viewing is here, EnjoyIllinois.com is doing it for them.
We may love all the colors under the rainbow overall, but when it comes to the color of our cars here in the Rockford area and throughout Illinois, we're a lot more boring about colors than we might think.
We're about 9 days out from the start of Autumn, and according to those in-the-know, the fall foliage is going to get really pretty shortly afterwards.
Today is a seriously gray day in our part of the country, so I thought I'd color things up a bit with some things you may not have known about colors.
From an interesting piece at Oddstuffmagazine.com, we glean these nuggets of color:
Scientists have found that the perception of red color corresponds to the X-chromosome...