August 25 in Pen Pal--and the waters of the moon

[asakiyume]

Yesterday I neglected to post what happened on August 25 in Pen Pal, so I will tell you today. Kaya's memories took a dark turn:

I won’t write more just now. I don’t like recalling those next hours and days. If I start to, the memories spring to life too real, too vivid.

. . . On a more pleasant note, what is your favorite lunar body of water?

Here is a handy list to choose from. I think I like the Sea of Vapors and the Ocean of Storms. The lakes are also good: there is a Lake of Autumn, and for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, a Lake of Spring, and also lakes of perseverance and forgetfulness. There is a Marsh of Epidemics and a Bay of Rainbows.


Crop of this photo, by Olga Gladysheva

Comments

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

Foaming Sea - in part because it's so vivid, in part because one of my characters' moniker is Seafoam.

I also like Sea of Islands and Ocean of Storms. It's interesting to see how poetic the names are, and how wistful in their wish to dream of water on that bone-dry planet.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The names are so very evocative--it makes me wish we had some of those beautiful names here on Earth. Parts of the Atlantic are very much Ocean of Storms-ish, and bays with mangroves or coral reefs could be Bays of Fertility. And areas like by Venezuela's Catatumbo region could be Deltas of Lightning.

[helivoy.livejournal.com]

The original Latin term is Spumans, from which comes the equally evocative spume -- the drizzle of foam that meets you as you walk into the waves.

And it makes a lilting sound with another lunar name: Seething Bay and Foaming Sea...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking these could make really lovely song lyrics.