Blue isn’t necessarily the strongest color in a scene (Hello, yellow-green), but the light-magic of fog gives blue a pretty good chance to dominate. And then there was that extremely well-timed seagull…

Fun Fact 1: in my senior year in architecture school, my design professor (Dan MacGilvary, who was outstanding) told us his most hated color was a specific shade of yellow-green that he called “snake-shit green.” He promised anyone who used that color in their renderings would fail his class.

Fun Fact 2: my sister and I called that same shade “spit-up green” and almost never used that particular Crayon.

Fun Fact 3: I don’t know how a post about this blue sign got hijacked by the color chartreuse.

Portland, Maine
photographed 3.16.2026