Thinking about Halloween costumes?

What to do, what to do. Why not be your favorite mollusk? Do you have lots of metro cards hanging around your house? I know I do. (photo: wally g, hat: andygpadre8) What about an old sweatshirt you don’t need? Here’s the instructable for this costume. Are you really crafty, or perhaps have a crafty [...]

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It’s Octopus Day!

Happy Cephalopod Awareness Days! For more about the history, see this post on the Cephalopodiatrist. Today is Octopus Day. For today I wrote a teensy poem and I’ll share this photo of a North Pacific Giant Octopus I saw at the Seattle Aquarium. I don’t know if it’s the geometry of the enclosure or if [...]

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Friday Linkstravaganza

There’s been so many awesome things on the internet this week that I want to share. Linkstravaganza! First, the other participants in International Rock Flipping Day! It was a great crowd to be in; so many excellent sightings. Lynda at mainlymongoose Kordite in the Flickr group Bill Murphy at Fertanish Chatter Rebecca In The Woods [...]

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Rock flipping adventures

I live here. (photo: Katy Silberger) Where I actually live isn’t in the frame there, but you get the idea. It can be very pretty in its own way. To wit: (photo: Andrew Mace) It’s not the kind of place one expects to see a ton of wildlife, as it were. It took me a [...]

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Are you flippin’? I’m flippin’.

What are you doing this weekend? Flipping a rock, I hope! Sunday is International Rock Flipping Day! Check out the full information over on Wanderin’ Weeta’s awesome blog. There’s a flickr pool with some pretty great mollusks under rocks. (photo credit: The MarvelousInNature.wordpress.com) (photo credit: asterbleu) I’m sure hoping for a slug or snail sighting, [...]

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