Seeing Orange

An orange bird has been visiting our backyard lately. It looks like a typical house finch except his feathers are orange where a house finch's are usually red. I learned that orange is a color variation in house finches and yellow is too. This is the first male house finch I've observed with any color besides red in the 15 years I've lived in Tucson.

Seeing the orange house finch made me realize that besides him and an occasional oriole, orange colored birds aren't very common around here.
However, looking through my pictures, I noticed an abundance of the color orange in other forms. Just for fun, here are some orange or almost-orange subjects:

Animals

neighbor's dog, pet box turtle, horse at Sabino Canyon, our cat Billy

Plants

barrel cactus, red bird of paradise (Caesalpinia pulcherrima)
globe mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua), prickly pear cactus buds

Elements

Blackett's Ridge Sabino Canyon, a neighbor's clay roof, Sabino Creek, Sabino sunset

I hadn't thought about the color orange much until that little bird appeared. Now it seems as if I'm seeing orange everywhere!

Sunrise Drive at Sabino Canyon Road

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."
~ Vincent Van Gogh