50 Shades of Spray 2

Many thanks to Pierre Kfoury for sending along this very clever photo in shades of black, white, and gray of Bruce McAllister he took up by New Hamburg, NY.  In Pierre’s photo, I like those gray shades and gray reflections too.

More shades of spray take us to Emerald Coast, passing Chesapeake Coast.

Sitting out on deck has to be evidence of a warm heart on a vessel

that will miss Mardi Gras in a warm place.

Frozen spray reinforces the fenders maybe?

The glaze coats the hull with a very light-gray layer.

Hunting Creek has glaze and icicles.

Even on this vessel with a hot name . . . the icy shading is present.  Is it true that this tanker was briefly in port to deliver the love drug —phenethylamine— to those of us crowded on the edges of the sixth boro?   A few years ago, this vessel was in the sixth boro with the name Golden Venus;  for photos of her and other vessels with fantastic names, click here.

So . .  50 shades of spray?  How about 56 or 65 or  . . .spray, gray, play . . . ?  The number is only limited by the imagination and the eye.

I had gone looking to get a photo of this vessel, but by the time I got to my favorite cliffs, they all have headed to warmer waters.  And given the usual fashion of mermaids, I can’t blame them.

Thanks again to Pierre Kfoury for his photo.  All others by Will Van Dorp.