Standing next to a thin belt of rattling trees that represents the only line of green in vast stretches of orange desert, 70-year-old Hamud El-Nour Hamdallah recalls a time when this area in Sudan's River Nile state was dense forest.
You can see the sign of change in a new stretch of fluorescent orange boardwalk along the riverfront, an eye catcher for passengers on trains rumbling over the bridge into Newark Penn Station.
Interviewed in his office, beneath pictures of his guiding lights (Plato, Sun Tzu, the Buddha), Mr Ta says that there are "commonalities" among Asian-Americans but that the term does not mean much to him.Westminster, part of a stretch of Orange County known as "Little Saigon" since the arrival of thousands of war refugees in the mid-1970s, is 40% Vietnamese.
We sit on his boat's roof, dusky sunlight stretching a pool of orange towards us across the waves.
When Orange County incorporated, in 1889, it was a stretch of bean fields and orange groves for developers to dream on.
Then Foley is seen on his knees in a stretch of desert, wearing an orange jumpsuit that billows in the breeze.
We saw the glow of it first, hours before we got there – a perfect dome of orange light stretched above a dark canopy of trees.
This week's most entertaining stretch was Rick and Daryl's excellent adventure in search of Orange Crush for Dr Denise, and sorghum seeds for Eugene.
On a stretch of Prospect Park's main drive, bright orange traffic barrels are the most visible symbols of an urgent and emotional debate over whose rights should have priority in Brooklyn's largest park: pedestrians' or cyclists'?
At one point, Natasha Ossinova, a 33-year-old obstetrics nurse, sailed in with her 13-month-old son, Vasily, cinched to her back with a five-yard stretch of woven fabric in shades of burnt orange and burgundy.
