The Blue

Among mangoes and frogmouths there is the Aussie sky, another one of my favorites! I love it because unlike in most places in the world, in Australia the sky resembles very closely a painter's palette of colors. My picture testifies to it. I love it also because it's extraordinarily blue on most days. I always wondered if this deep blue is due to the hole in the ozone layer above Australia or to the very low pollution in this island. And because it is such a solid blue, the Australian sky seems to be lower than other "skies." Can I even say that? Lower to the point that I sometimes want to pass my fingers through it...