Pic o’ the Week: “like a galaxy crashed with the ocean”

“This is the most amazing discovery in my lifetime! It feels like I’ve discovered a rare treasure,” Andreea Baker exclaimed about seeing these seastars in a mussel shell. Baker happened upon this wondrous ocean sight while walking along the Oregon coast near Cannon Beach. We were visiting Indian Beach Oregon on my 37th birthday. We …

Thankful

I smile o'er the wrinkled blue­ Lo! the sea is fair, Smooth as the flow of a maiden's hair; And the welkin's light shines through Into mid-sea caverns of beryl hue, And the little waves laugh and the mermaids sing, And the sea is a beautiful, sinuous thing! --from The Sea Spirit, by Lucy Maud …