A WONDROUS LAND

FAR out in the wide sea - where the water is blue as the loveliest cornflower, and clear as the purest crystal, where it is so deep that very many church towers must be heaped one upon another, in order to reach from the lowest depth to the surface above - dwell the mer people.

NOW YOU MUST NOT IMAGINE THAT THERE IS NOTHING BUT SAND BELOW THE WATER.

No indeed. Far from it !

Trees and plants of wondrous beauty grow there, whose stems and leaves are so light that they are waved to and fro by the slightest motion of the water, almost as if they were living beings.

Fishes, great and small, glide in and out amongst the branches, just as birds fly about among our trees.

This is the beginning of the fairy tale" THE LITTLE MERMAID " by Hans Christian Anderson. 
I love these words and the mer people and their world since my childhood. There was a moment when I wanted to rather live there. 

Would it not be nice to be as light as this and see your shadow below you gliding slowly over the rocks in crystal clear water.?

IS THERE COLOR IN THE SEA ?

I was asked by my friend who lives in the Sahara and who has never seen the sea: IS THERE COLOR IN THE SEA ?

You can not know how much I loved his question because I had so much to say to him.

There is not only color but there are pink spaghettis in the sea.

There is a beautiful dead pale crab not anymore in the sea.

There is structure and delicacy in the sea.

What is inside the sea reflects it's color to the outside.

The sea is made from a painters palette.

My perfect, green shimmering, shining wave comes from the sea.

There is change and movement in the sea.

There is sculpture in the sea.

There is an indescribable abundance of good things of all colors in the sea.

 Through the sea you can understand the spirit of water and the way it moves.

 There is shape and light and reflection in the sea helping yourself getting a clearer picture of yourself.

In clear water the mermaid's golden hair flows.

And there is art in the sea.

SO MUCH, MY FRIEND SAID. AND WHAT IS A MERMAID?