{"id":2462,"date":"2013-07-11T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2013-07-11T23:04:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:04:30","slug":"color-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=2462","title":{"rendered":"The Colors of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long ago, LCB resigned himself to my insatiable penchant for the sea. Now, for instance, when I mention other islands and beaches we could explore on some future vacation, his eyes roll, but LCB is, generally speaking, resigned to a fate I remind him he once willfully chose before God and man when he married me.<\/p>\n

Okay, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually do that, but now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve thought of it, I might try it once and thus secure for myself the fodder for another post.<\/p>\n

I think I actually hear a handful of you egging me on so passionately your cries are echoing through the blogosphere.<\/p>\n

Some of y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all have your own LCBs, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you?<\/p>\n

Anyway, for those of you new to these here parts<\/a>, as my blog name suggests, I live on an island, one that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relatively small, so the ocean isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly hard to come by. But I was landlocked in my formative years, and this took a heavy toll. Indeed, it was a tough row to hoe, coming of age in the Midwest, with all the years I spent collecting acorns instead of sea glass and playing cowgirls instead of mermaids.<\/p>\n

Forgive me. Being obnoxious is just so enjoyable sometimes.<\/p>\n

So anyway again, my penchant drives me to spend a great deal of time observing the ocean, noting, among other things, its changes. When I first moved here, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realize how much the sea does change<\/a>, from season to season, from low tide to high tide, from one hour to the next. It is one of the things I love about the sea, how unpredictable it is even amid its predictable patterns.<\/p>\n

One aspect of its unpredictability is its change in colors.<\/p>\n

\"100_0760\"<\/a>I love, for instance, how for a time, sunrise does this to the water,<\/p>\n

\"100_2906\"<\/a>rendering it golden and orange.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_5424\"<\/a>Likewise, sunsets often create a layer of pink across the ocean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surface.<\/p>\n

\"100_7499\"<\/a>On days mixed with clouds, the clouds often reach forward to meet the sea foam, and white becomes the overriding color.<\/p>\n

\"100_2824\"<\/a>Then there are days of blues and greens, days my camera\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s operator will never do justice to, where shades of turquoise and teal wash against deeper blues.<\/p>\n

\"100_0599\"<\/a>Of course, the largest spectrum of color sometimes rises up from the ocean and arcs high, high into the sky, beckoning to those with a certain penchant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long ago, LCB resigned himself to my insatiable penchant for the sea. Now, for instance, when I mention other islands and beaches we could explore on some future vacation, his eyes roll, but LCB is, generally speaking, resigned to a fate I remind him he once willfully chose before God and man when he married […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,1513,831,1511,105,100,1512],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-beach-life","tag-changes-in-the-sea","tag-coastal-life","tag-colors-of-the-ocean","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-sea-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}