catching up

ALL HALLOW

/ janpriddyoregon / 4 Comments

It’s the end of the month I turned 73, and we were busy with cleaning and walking; I’m running a mile at a time on the flat and writing and reading. There’s more. The basalt shore is stirred up along the edges and we’re finding things.

I think about and intend to show a day’s collection during every walk, day after day. Here, finally, is one day’s “catch.” At left a very large “ugly clam” that looks like nothing special on the other side, but the inside is beautiful mother-of-pearl nacre. Then three striped limpets, the most common kind, and four white ones with the one at left showing damage from worms and the one at right nearly perfect. Just left of that and above another ugly clam is my favorite and rarest type of limpets with vertical grooves and a hole shaped like a droplet, pointed at one end and rounded at the other. The green seaglass is the second glass this week, what I’d call “medium size,” and that find is recorded in my daily record as “1glass” and will join other glass in a glass jar. Recent tides have been washing up into the rocks and exposing treasures and trash buried the basalt, including several bits of pumice from the blowing of Mt St Helens in 1980 in the past week but none this day. The feather is what I call a “two-spot feather” which may have a single spot across the central vein, one spot on one side, or a distinct spot on each side, hence the name. If anyone can help identify the species of bird that molts these feathers, I would love to hear about it!
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