confused about order of operations in blink demo [solved]

Using Arduino Programming Questions
1

I'm playing with the built-in blink example, and am confused about why things are working as they are. In the following code snippet:

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(led, HIGH);   // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
  delay(1000);               // wait for a second
  digitalWrite(led, LOW);    // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
  delay(4000);               // wait for a second
}

I would expect this to light up the LED, wait for 1 sec, then turn it off and wait for 4 sec. However, the opposite is true. It lights up, stays lit for 4 seconds, then turns off and waits for 1 second.

I a little bit feel like I'm going crazy here. Why is it reverse of what I expect?

2

Is your LED with resistor going to ground?

3

ah, that was it. thanks!