"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises." - Calderon de Barca

Have you ever looked, (and when I say looked here, I mean looked as in really saw,) all the shades of green in the world? It doesn't take a microscope; just a drive down the road or a step outside your door or a glance outside your window.

I really noticed this the other day as I realized that the most common color we see outside is green. Green tree tops, green grass, green brambles and brush and bushes, green vines, green flower stems, green kudzoo. It's everywhere!

But then I started thinking how doggone boring it would be if all this beauty was one shade of green. I mean, we would be absolutely sick of green if every single thing God colored green had the exact same tint and look.

He didn't, though. Just look at a tree line, or a patch of grass, and you will see greens so pale they're almost white, so dark they blend into the black shadows, yellow greens, blue greens, green with a hint of orange or red, bold, bright greens and nondescript, retiring greens. In fact, you would be pretty hard pressed to find the exact same green in the same area... even on the same tree or bush! Green plants and such are beautiful in the innermost shadows of the woods, soft and velvety, but they become just as beautiful in an open clearing with the sunbeam's golden hues pouring over them and transforming them into something absolutely magical.

And I was overwhelmed with the thought of God's creative genius in such a small thing as how many greens there are in the world and how gorgeous they are for us to enjoy.