Sunrise
Act 1 scene I, pale lightening, oddly, slightly yellow dark.
ii. soft gradient from horizon to overhead, pale light through lavenders
iii. broken clouds softly white
iv. first pinks in high clouds constrast with lavenders
v. pink to stunning, shimmering rose high clouds
Act II,
Sc 1. Sun lights from behind a bank of cumulus clouds
Sc 3. Sun shines up though clouds as well as below.
Act 3.
Sc 1 full sun over banks of clouds
Sc 2. Shimmering light dances across the fractal waters
Sc 3. Below the cumulus cloud banks, in place of sun beams, rays of gray as rain falls.
Sc 4. Clouds hide the sun and reveal the shifting currents in the bay. Beyond, reef swells break.
Sc 5. Broken clouds tighten overhead, yet bright blues also shine through to the southeast, softening to the souther horizon, and deepening overhead and reaching to the west.
Act 4.
Sc 1. Low tufts of cumulus approach, moving steadily past, with grace. Grays, dark and light, holding tons of water in vapor suspended, a lake in flight.
Sc 2. High above, in the stratus, whisps of cotton candy spread out from each other, sweeping the sky and shifting ever slowly in distant motion.
Sc 3. The sun presses against and through the high broken cloud layer, a bright opaque ovoid as if stretched by gravity.
Sc 4. The low clouds thicken, hiding the sun. The rain showers are still in the distance, but approach fast on the horizon.
Sc 5. The bay shimmers in black and white.
Act 5.
Sc 1. Loose white clouds are pulled apart overhead. The blues are almost entirely hidden.
Sc 2. A ribbon of high broken clouds lets through the deep blue streching from dear earth clear to space.
Sc 3. Rain showers, en masse as a flotilla, veer to the south, passing behind the rocky point on the far side of the bay.
Sc 4. Sun bursts through clouds, forcing eyes to squint.
Sc 5. A heavy cloudbank glides overhead, its edges blurry, again the sun’s rays are subdued. The reef surf ebbs, flows, the breathing of the ocean moving towards greater calm. The sea a vast plane and plain of shimmering gray.
