Shrimp boats on Shem Creek in Mount Pleasant, at the end of the light.

Three boats sit across the frame — a red-hulled one on the left, two white ones to the right — and behind them the cloud has broken into rows lit hot pink underneath while the tops stay blue-grey. The dock lights had come on by then, so the creek in front is carrying two colors at once: gold from the docks, blue from the sky. The rigging on all three shows as bare line against the color.

Blue and pink and gold. A working creek on a night that did not stay ordinary.