On my monitor, the first one is a blue a little darker than cornflower. second, magenta or fuchcsia with little bits of red toward the middle. and. yeah, there aren't really wrong answers, but at the same time, if I said " Bring me back something red," I'd be confused if I got the second flower.

Looks like blue and magenta respectively to me, dcp.

My parents famously (within the family, anyway) do not see colors the same. They bought a 1963 Volvo early in their marriage, and decided to get it painted when I was a kid. Dad wanted to get a particular shade, but it had to go to the shop and the paint picked out when he’d be at work, so he sent mom with the instructions to get whatever color he actually wanted and if they couldn’t do that just the same color it already was. So the color he wanted wasn’t available, and the dark color it was also wasn’t available, so she got light blue thinking it had been dark blue and that was as close as she could get. Got it home and Dad said it was never dark blue, it was dark green.

But what I was coming here to say is that I have bagels from the new bake-to-order bagelry in Vallejo, you place orders Sun-Thurs, they start the dough Thursday night and you can pick them up Sunday morning. I am unreasonably excited, Solano county has been such a bagel desert for at least as long as I’ve lived there. I hope they live up to my expectations.

We had approx 6 trick-or-treaters last night. Got the edges of the Halloween puzzle all put together, and a bit of the middle.