I had to go and check, and I can confirm that it’s OK. The sea is still blue, as is the sky, with a cleverly contrasting yellow for the ground. Whoever worked that one out is no fool, it gets us every time.
Times change, so I don’t know if parents are still afflicted with the persistent cries of “Are we there yet?” from children, desperate for their first view of the summer sea, as family cars slowly edge towards the end of land for their holidays. I remember uttering that cry and experiencing the excitement engendered by that first view of blue joining blue. In truth, it was often grey joining grey, but anticipation and imagination created the blues, that for once were not a lament but a joyful hymn.
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Toujours le grand bleu 🙂
La mer est vachement plus geniale que la merde:)
No shit!
🙂
Oh, those colours! Beautiful pictures, Roger.
Beautiful days – at last:)
Certainly glad you checked on it and found it well.
I’d been worried, I have to say:)
The walk down to the beach looks idyllic. I get excited every day when I catch my first glimpse of the sea!
It’s something special, isn’t it?
Lovely sentiments, lovely pictures.
So good to see the sun:)
Lovely colors, Roger.
I once had a cousin who, upon her first sighting of the Atlantic Ocean, said, “I believe it, but I don’t see it.”
Nice words.
Beach! I’ll be at one soon…
Have a good time:)
That’s a beautiful capture of the path to the beach, Roger. There’s nothing quite like that first glimpse of the water on a cloudless day.
It works every time:)
Oh that last shot is Bloody Stunning, absolutely magical.. makes me LONG for home and the sea, Is this your piece of beach where you live? I am sure i read one time that you were making concrete by the sea, why do i remember that.. or are you still on holiday.. c
That is where I was making concrete! The beach is about 50mins drive from our house.The Atlantic coast of the Vendee is like that.
‘Are we there yet?’ must still be a popular saying as two of the current local TV ads very much make it their central point 🙂 ! And I have seen such brilliant blue many a time around Pacific Islands but never been lucky in Europe . . . just beautiful . . .
After a long grey winter, it’s good to see France looking its best again.
You’ve reminded me that I must go and check that the Mediterranean is still blue! Lovely shots.
Let me know:)
Gorgeous color. We live near Lake Michigan and marvel that it never looks the same – colors change, the beach shifts, the vegetation changes…
I’ve never been to the Great Lakes – it must be wonderful.
Definitely the right kind of blues to have….
So good to see it at last:)
Even the blues are more beautiful in France.
They can be, that’s for sure.
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