Green is the colo[u]r of her kind

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Green is the colo[u]r of her kind
Green is the colo[u]r of her kind

A section of the Washington Cascades along the Paradise River, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

I suppose eventually I should post some photos of those lovely waterfalls I keep mentioning that I hiked to, but there were so many other little things along the trail that also captured my attention. High among them was this pool of green water, laying at the base of one of the tiers of the Washington Cascades. I was completely enraptured by that light green color (which none of my photos can really do justice to), especially with the way it was illuminated in the sunlight. Had the water not been merely inches deep I would have wanted to dive into the pool and suffuse my soul with that color.

On a more practical note, the lighter green color is likely from the presence of glacial flour in the water since the Paradise River originates from the toe of the Paradise Glacier on Mount Rainier. (Its outflow is into the Nisqually River, for those to whom such things are of interest!) The darker green color in the water below below the pool is from the moss on the rocks beneath the water surface. I also found the clear demarcation between the two colors to be rather fascinating. The lighter shade was completely contained to the pool, with no “coloring outside the lines”!

**Link below is to the Pink Floyd song from where the title was borrowed:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XeWngFZaa8

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Taken on: August 28, 2021
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