Yesterday evening, I was pulled away from the table, where I was listening to some radio and sewing a pincushion, by the lovely purple light that was coming through the window. Not a spectacular sunset, like the one I posted a couple days ago, but a very muted lovely late-evening twilight peering around some clouds on the horizon. I walked down to the shore, and was surprised to find these lovely scallops. They all have such fancy hats on! I don't know that I've ever seen bigger barnacles. It was amazing how the red and pink and purple colors of the shells and the seaweed were glowing through this evening light... there was a rusty-red jellyfish washed up on shore that was still pulsing, which was both a bit creepy but also fascinating. And then a juvenile glaucous gull came over and tried to see what I was up to. He was kind enough to pose for a picture before waddling on... And to think this bit of ocean will be frozen over in a few months time, it's really quite astonishing. I have to remind myself that there are seals and whales and fish and crabs and coral and sponges and all kinds of things living out there... and they don't migrate for winter, they just find a way to deal with it! How truly amazing.
No comments:
Post a Comment