Bye, Bye, Blue Skies

prints of the original oil painting by Ken Dahl

March 2026 

Blue - The color I never seem to have enough of. But it's always there, impatiently waiting behind that cold, solid wall of gray. Underneath it all the world keeps moving... Time keeps slipping by, with or without the blue. 

Another winter’s day in the great northwest. The captain makes a course correction, due to the outgoing tide current, on their way from Tacoma to Vashon Island. A woman in black stands on the upper deck. Leaning gently on the railing she stares down at the water moving by and falls into a trance. She sings in a whisper - the words of an old Breaking Benjamin song...

"Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day. All the world is waiting for the sun."

She thinks to herself...
... "And the blue."