06-17-2018, 12:37 PM
that strange light-blue color
As the sun gets higher in the sky during the summer months (see Lahaina Noon*), it’s rays enter the water from almost directly overhead, not at an angle as in the winter months. This gives the ocean more of a pastel color, especially between late May & late July. If you ever go to a white sand beach closer to the equator it’s even more pronounced.
* Lahaina Noon is a tropical solar phenomenon when the Sun culminates at the zenith at solar noon, passing directly overhead (above the subsolar point).
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
As the sun gets higher in the sky during the summer months (see Lahaina Noon*), it’s rays enter the water from almost directly overhead, not at an angle as in the winter months. This gives the ocean more of a pastel color, especially between late May & late July. If you ever go to a white sand beach closer to the equator it’s even more pronounced.
* Lahaina Noon is a tropical solar phenomenon when the Sun culminates at the zenith at solar noon, passing directly overhead (above the subsolar point).
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
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