Today is my mother’s birthday and I miss her. She died in 2000. Last night I heard of the death of a 20 year old at my daughter’s college. I am so sorry, for him, his family, his friends.
In Memoriam

Today is my mother’s birthday and I miss her. She died in 2000. Last night I heard of the death of a 20 year old at my daughter’s college. I am so sorry, for him, his family, his friends.
This photograph is for Thursday Doors…. I am certain there is at least one door, and probably lots… but I keep getting distracted….
This is a beach but not the ocean. We were on Chesapeake Bay, the Western shore, three days ago.
For Memorial Day, this takes me back to my paternal grandparents’ house, on Topsail Island in North Carolina. The two small black items are fossilized shark’s teeth. As the water erodes the shore, the fossils wash up. My grandparents walked the beach every day and as kids we learned to hunt and spot the shark’s teeth. The white tooth has been replaced by black stone. They are shiny and that curved pointed shape stands out with practice.
My skills returned on the Bay beach. We found other fossils: a fossil dolphin tooth, fossil coral, fossilized bone and wood. The sand and sky and foliage and shells are so different from my Pacific Northwest beaches.
This is for photrablogger’s Mundane Monday #111.
Though it isn’t a mundane Monday, is it? I always miss my mother on Memorial Day because her birthday is May 31. The end of May makes me a little sad. She died of cancer in 2000. But…. my feet look like hers.
It’s a selfie with shells and a beach, near fish… A shellfishie….
Another photograph for the Weekly Photo Challenge: evanescent. What is more evanescent than the spring change of bud to flower to fruit to falling?
This photograph is also from my hike two days ago. These are broadhead skinks, I am told. Skinks are lizards and their family has 1500+ species. This pair was right by the hiking trail. I tried not to spook them and succeeded. They were still curled there when we walked on.
For the Weekly Photo Challenge: evanescent.
This is from a beautiful hike yesterday.
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