In working on my map of visited counties, I ran into a color problem. With a new color selected every two years (more or less), the palette of strong contrasts is running out. I’ve been through the box of eight, so to speak, and am now working through to 16.
The next available option, after double shades of green, blue, and brown, seemed like a shade of red. But it needed to contrast with the medium red used for 1994, which colored in our entire trip to Disney World. I settled on a dark red between a crimson and a scarlet.
Then I started to fill in my newest counties in Michigan, next to the gray of 2013, and…
THIS WAS UNINTENTIONAL I SWEAR. Please don’t sharpen your knives, Yoopers.
I have since revised the last decade to every-three-years and so the scarlet of “2018-19” is now the deep brown of “2016-18”, ending perceived Buckeye dominance of Occupied Wisconsin.