Gracefulness of Air and Water

Graceful is this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge.

My examples of the gracefulness of air and water.

Balloon festival in Colorado.

Although we named it the “bad sail” we do love it.  It increases our speed when the wind is behind us at just the right angle.  It’s graceful and quiet except for when it snaps-to as it fills with air.  It teaches infinite patience because just as we go through the gazillion steps to rig it, the wind changes to another angle, and we have to take it down and go back to our jib, hence the “bad sail”.

A catboat, Selina II, that takes tourists out for short excursions in St. Michael’s MD.  We usually see her in the daytime but one night, while we anchored out, we saw her gracefully sailing at dusk.  Catboats are graceful sailboats.

Antonio Jorge’s gracefulness on water.  In Provincetown Massachusetts, as she returned to port was a lovely sight to be seen.  Our whale watching plans were canceled due to weather so I ended up having a killer seafood “chowda” and we were treated to a sight of Antonio Jorge.  Sometimes the best things happen when from a change in plans.