(Silk flower) Artificial flowers and imitations of natural flowers are sometimes made for scientific purposes (the collection of glass flowers at Harvard University, for example, which illustrates the flora of the United States), but more often as articles for commercial or residential decoration.
In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It is shipped with every "X" installation, hence the name, and is usually located in /lib/X11/rgb.txt.
of a light shade of blue
Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours.
The End-Of-Summer Blues
"Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed."
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965)
"Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk of summer..."
Philip Larkin (1922-1986)
Crochet Bracelet with sparkly white and blue flowers
made on a light taupe acrylic base and embellished with white cashmere (with a fine metallic gold thread in it) and light blue flowers (with a fine silver thread in it) and metallic silver and gold leaves. Also has little white buds in silk.