Good-bye Christmas 12/19/11

• Up early to get my SGD ready to head back to Missouri.  Excellent morning to get back to sunrise watching.  The tropical rainbow colors were deep and luscious, wrapped around the skyline.  Mother Ocean rolled ice blue and peaceful, barely making a splash as she slipped in the low tide.  Clouds along the horizon were whispery blue-gray mountains.  A few splotches of clouds became a glistening wet rainbow trout as Sunbella unleashed her colors before cresting.  Seven silver contrails threaded the blue sky.  Sunbella rose quiet, humongous, glowing molten orange, and quickly melted away all the clouds.  A dazzling day begins.
• My SGD is already in Atlanta, awaiting the last leg of his journey home to Springfield.  I beachwalked south and waved at his plane as it took off and banked out over the ocean.  He didn't see me, but it felt right to give him a send him off from the beach.  Mother Ocean and Sunbella comforted me as I cried my way back to my place.  We had a wonderful visit, the best Christmas present I could ever have.  But alone feels so much more lonely when you've been sharing space with the one you love and now they are gone.