God's eyelashes- have you seen them lately?

Whitecaps on the water - and in the marina. It's our 4th winter living aboard and the adventure continues. With this crazy el ninYo weather pattern it's been mostly cold, cloudy or rainy the past 6 weeks since we left land. Yet for all its inconveniences, I still love it. Each day I wake 'dark & early' to greet the morning, watching quietly as the sky changes color until I'm surrounded by a panoramic blue view. Downtown is across the river at new marina location, so the condos, lights and noise are at a distance. Very few vehicles cross the bridge at this hour.
The sounds are just as incredible- a train whistle off in the distance, water lapping at the hull of the boat, ospreys chirping as they search for food and sit atop a favorite mast. It's mating season and there are 2 males and a female...she may have chosen her partner as I see 'building materials' in the talons as one flies overhead.
Walking down the dock on this windy morning, I look up to see a flock of birds in a holding pattern overhead, riding wind currents, almost hovering andlooking like a slow-moving mobile.
Yesterday I saw skimmer birds- they have black wings, black beaks, are sleeker than seagulls - so named because they fly close to the water's surface, beaks open, skimming for tiny fish.

Sunsets are often missed at home on land. Too busy, tired after a long day, and too many trees in the yard. We'd have to go to the beach (which is just over the bridge, less than 2 miles), but we get complacent with paradise in our back yard. However, sunsets are hard to miss where we're at home on board. Sunsets with all the afterglow, silver linings that remind me of mom. It's like watching a color wheel spin ever so slowly across the clouds and sky. Tonight it set behind a cloud, rays streaming from behind it, top and bottom. God's eyelashes.