Good news! This is the last of my nonsense mined from that nomenclature of colors book*. Yay!!

And in a surprising plot twist, today I’m moving from discussing shades of orange to talking about the dark pink part of this sign. Or, as the book would call it, Colour 92, Lake Red. It’s “the crimson red of Werner” and features “arterial blood red, with a portion of Berlin blue”. (Again with the arterial blood red though.) In another plot twist, our pal and book author** Mr. P. Syme does not list any animals that have this color, which is a bit of a disappointment, if I’m being honest; it is, though, a featured color of the Rose Officinalus.

the snow day series
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 1.24.2026

*I don’t know where I got this crazy nomenclature of colors book. But it resides on a shelf alongside a book called COLORSTROLOGY; What Your Birthday Color Says About You and the second edition (because duh) of A Dictionary of Symbols (which is obviously not to be confused with the Penguin reference edition of Dictionary of Symbols, which also lives nearby.***)

**If it’s spelled “colour” don’t you think “author” ought to be spelled “authour”?

***So if, at any point you may have thought I was normal, this bibliography probably helped you change your mind.