Daily prompt: What do you love about where you live?

I love the way the cyanite sand spirals along the shoreline. Far from the safety of the modern world, the soft stretches of countryside bend toward the pastoral, so alien to this place.

An impressionist’s brush painted this landscape with the thick wetness of memory, but the memory of an imaginary dimension. A terraformer’s hallucination.

That would explain the shapes.

Walking along the edge of the world, I kick up more blues and greens staying clear of the surf edging in. It sizzles through my respirator, making my good eye water.

It feels like crying, as so much here does.

Image: Cillioure (La Moulade), Henri Matisse 1905

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