That Blue is gone. It’s been cloudy on and off the past couple days, and That Blue always took on a steely edge on a cloudy day, so I don’t know exactly at what point it disappeared completely, but the ocean is not That Blue anymore. It’s as if the cloudy day colors common to these higher latitudes, have permanently bled into the ocean staining it a dark green gray blue. The new color is similar to the outer waters of California’s ocean, but more gray than green; a color only an albatross can love. There are lots of those monster gliders now, soaring along gazing down into this darker brooding sea.

And the sapphire gems that were nestled under every whitecap, have disappeared with it; even in the same bright sun, the whitecaps now just settle back into the ocean with a froth, no sparkling blue treasures between cap and ocean.

That Blue had become such a constant presence in our lives; only changing a little with the weather, or as the waters became shallow it would break down into it’s component parts of indigo, pure turquoise and emerald. But this total disappearance is a surprise. We’ll miss That Blue.

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