Life’s minor frustrations (and occasional dangers) for the color blind:

Bi-color and tri-color LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes): Is that glowing indicator light red, yellow, or green?
Traffic lights, and worst of all, Caution lights: Color blind people always know the position of the colors on the traffic light – in most states, Red on top, Yellow in the center, Green (or is that blue?) on the bottom. It isn’t good when we go to a city or state where they put traffic lights horizontal – it takes a couple of days to get used to that one! But caution lights present an entirely different problem. In this situation there is only one light; no top or bottom, no right or left, just one light that is either red or yellow – but which is it?

Color Normal Dichromat

Color observation by others: “Look at those lovely pink flowers on that shrub”. Reply, looking at a greenish shrub “What flowers?”

Color Normal Dichromat

The source of the last three pictures is critiquewall.com by Paul Martin

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Born on the North West Coast of the US. I am use to Snow Capped Mountains, beautiful Forests, wild flowers on wild Rivers. The once wild foods, berries of the area and the beloved Salmon.

I could look out across the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean. I could look in land at the Snow Capped Mountains.

I watched the Hawks and Eagles soaring in the clean pure blue skies. Enjoyed the thrill of the first crys of the Geese in Spring and Winter. As thousands of flocks in v formation made their dramatic way North or South each season.

Loving the show of the Northern Lights dancing across the skies.

Hearing the howl of the wolf packs. Hearing them pausing at the tent flap at night, as they listened in on you.

Finding you were being tracked by curious Mountain Lions in the snow when crossing back over the trails and seeing their foot prints behind yours.

Seeing huge bear tracks just filling in with water on the trail and the hair standing up on the back of your neck realizing he/she is right next to you in the brush.