Fall as a season is about 3 months short for me. With all due respect to the calendar’s dates, here’s how it goes in Minnesota: Spring 3 months, Summer 3 months, Fall 4-6 weeks, and Winter 5 months. There’s a couple extra weeks in there but this is a flexible calendar. Following is a more detailed analysis, if you are curious.
Spring lasts from about April to June so I’d say 3 months, give or take a couple of weeks. Summer runs from somewhere in June until maybe sometime in September, so a good 3 months there as well. Fall is from sometime in September through pretty much most of October making it the shortest season at about 4 or 6 weeks tops. Winter can kick in during October but most likely early November and lasts through March, sometimes even into April making it the longest season here at 5 months plus.
At any rate, one day while I was enjoying the display of colors, I got to thinking there sure is a lot of competition out there for attention. When we survey the landscape, which color grabs our eye the most: red, yellow or green? (I didn’t have any orange in my test acreage.) I guess it’s the hidden psychologist/marketing director inside of me that wanted to know the answer to this question.
Here I tried to find trees in order of Green-red-yellow,
The tree color I noticed first was:
Green
Yellow
Red
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The tree color I noticed second was:
Yellow
Red
Green
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The tree color I noticed last was:
Red
Green
Yellow
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Then I got to thinking some more. Perhaps my experiment had too many variables such as size of tree, number of leaves, and percentage of frame each tree occupies. So I thought I would try it on a smaller scale with one leaf representing each color. Do you notice any differences now?
Green-yellow-red,
Green
Yellow
Red
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The leaf color I noticed second was:
Red
Yellow
Green
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The leaf color I noticed last was:
Red
Yellow
Green
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Perhaps another variable could be whether you are female or male.
I am:Male
Female
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Thank you for taking my polls. Maybe this will help you make your next marketing decision, at least as far as color is concerned!