Sunny blustery day...the sky seems bleached out...from the rich blue on high descending to whitish blue at the horizon. Josh and I hiked to Eel Point, where the beach grass is bleached the color of the sand and the eelgrass was bleached white. The birdscape was “ bleached out” as well, with only herring and ring-billed gulls taking advantage of the day. Sanderlings scampered, two black ducks jumped into flight and one red-tailed hawk spied the scene on the osprey pole. Not a leaf remains on the bushes, even the oak leaves are gone. The temperature has been less than 32 degrees for two days running.
Sunset in the cloudless bleached sky is like a fireball descending. It is a couple of weeks before the vernal equinox, and we can see the march of the sun to the north. In the city it’s not so clear how the point of sunrise and sunset moves from equinox to equinox. Here it is a part of daily life.
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| Bleached eel grass and beach grass |
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