I went for a long, long walk a few weeks ago, and this is what I saw:
A pink lady trying to pretend that winter won't come
A cave-garage carved into the hillside
A cruise ship heading for sea among a flotilla of sailboats
Red red berries against a (differently) red brick wall
Clay rocks that look like art
A random carpentry table sitting by the side of a busy road
A bilingual sign
Some shellfish clinging to rocks
Rocks covered in the footprints of a hundred thousand shellfish that cling no more
Santa Clause in a speedboat, monitoring a sailboat race
A red-beaked shorebird searching for his dinner
A bucket. Some poor walrus somewhere is having a bad day.
An airplane rising into the wide blue yonder
A big boat, and a lonely seagull
A long, long pier, with some not-so-lonely seagulls and fairy terns
Some brilliantly coloured native grass
Those are beautiful. I particularly like the variable oystercatcher searching for dinner.
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Those are beautiful. I particularly like the variable oystercatcher searching for dinner.
And I like that you know what it is! I’m going to use the name every chance I get now! “Oh…this dress…yes, the colour scheme was inspired by a variable oystercatcher”
Black oystercatchers are invariably variable oystercatchers. Pied oystercatchers are sometimes variable oystercatchers and sometimes pied oystercatchers. I kind of love this.
(Another way of saying this is to say that some variable oystercatchers are black and some are pied, but that’s less fun.)
Awesome photos! And to continue the biology lesson – the shellfish clinging to rocks are blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), edible and common on the south coast here and something the oyster catcher would like for breakfast 🙂
Wow–you have a wonderful life. Thanks for sharing pieces of it. (And cool friends, too! MO just shown in the dress!)
Oh, thank you! I work hard to make my life wonderful too – it’s so easy to not notice all the amazing stuff around you.