yellow sunshine

When I opened my eyes the next morning, the brightest yellow sunshine was coming through the window.

Smeerensburg is an intimidating and sometimes terrifying place at first; suffused with gray on Jesper’s arrival, alive with grotesque shadows and sickly green in one of its fish shops, and still bleak in the next day’s ostensibly cheery yellow sunshine.

Navy blues and grays have replaced the bright blue and yellow sunshine logos that decorate the company’s hulking stores.

“But what pleasure to lead my violins in a serenade of spring green or hear my trumpets blare out the blue sea and then watch the oboes tint it all in warm yellow sunshine. And rainbows are best of all—and blazing neon signs, and taxicabs with stripes, and the soft, muted tones of a foggy day. We play them all.”

During her recovery from surgery, Haynes also received a yellow “sunshine basket” from the Sonshine Girls of Cornerstone Church.