Shades of beach
A couple of weekends ago we went to the beach for the afternoon. I had wanted to go to the beach this summer but between my broken ankle and our trip east the sumer got away from us. So on a nice sunny day we went to the beach.
Which, being Northern California, meant it was cool and overcast on the coast. (In November, though, it'll be clear and beautiful on the beach).
We stayed and played anyway and had a nice time. The overcast was variable - sometimes you couldn't see the horizon for all the fog, and sometimes the sun broke through.
I played with the kids for a while, then sat down and enjoyed my beach chair for a while. I was looking around, watching a guy standing down by the water when I took a picture.
Before I show you the picture, I should explain. We've been having conversations about color around my house lately. The Italian and I both went to art school and have a reasonably decent vocabulary to talk about art and related subjects. Then of course we have two small children and are exposed to all sorts of things we might otherwise miss.
An example of which is a TV show call Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman. It's a live action / animated show created by WGBH in Boston (a PBS affiliate) with funding from the National Science Foundation. It's one of those shows which the kids love but is clever enough to be entertaining to their parents as well.
A recent episode started with a bit about color which had my husband laughing fit to bust a gut. Take a look:
Fetch!
This was weeks ago and I can still make the Italian laugh by just saying "zingy grey".
Anyway, the beach trip was shortly after seeing this episode on TV. The fog and haze was doing amazing things to the sunlight, and I took this picture to try to capture the roughly a bazillion shades of grey:
I took it with my phone and the colors aren't quite right - the actual colors were all shades of French Grey, but it still captures all the different shades. It was really beautiful.
Which, being Northern California, meant it was cool and overcast on the coast. (In November, though, it'll be clear and beautiful on the beach).
We stayed and played anyway and had a nice time. The overcast was variable - sometimes you couldn't see the horizon for all the fog, and sometimes the sun broke through.
I played with the kids for a while, then sat down and enjoyed my beach chair for a while. I was looking around, watching a guy standing down by the water when I took a picture.
Before I show you the picture, I should explain. We've been having conversations about color around my house lately. The Italian and I both went to art school and have a reasonably decent vocabulary to talk about art and related subjects. Then of course we have two small children and are exposed to all sorts of things we might otherwise miss.
An example of which is a TV show call Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman. It's a live action / animated show created by WGBH in Boston (a PBS affiliate) with funding from the National Science Foundation. It's one of those shows which the kids love but is clever enough to be entertaining to their parents as well.
A recent episode started with a bit about color which had my husband laughing fit to bust a gut. Take a look:
Fetch!
This was weeks ago and I can still make the Italian laugh by just saying "zingy grey".
Anyway, the beach trip was shortly after seeing this episode on TV. The fog and haze was doing amazing things to the sunlight, and I took this picture to try to capture the roughly a bazillion shades of grey:
I took it with my phone and the colors aren't quite right - the actual colors were all shades of French Grey, but it still captures all the different shades. It was really beautiful.
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