She explained what they were: "That's a rocket and that's a moon that you can see while you're flying in space."
"Cool," I said. "Are there any other things out in space to see?"
"Yes, there's Mars. Let me go make it for you." She took off to her little art desk.
"Do you know what color Mars is?" I asked.
"Orange," she said, certainly, already cutting some orange paper.
Close enough, I thought to myself.
"Here you go," she said a minute later, handing me a little piece of orange paper the size of a quarter. "It's small because it's so far away from the moon."
