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One of the smallest snails in the garden rests in the delicate pink petals of a blooming flower.
Taken on a day out with Vanessa in the Botanical Gardens of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park.
Update: geotagged! I need a GPS unit. Sigh...
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"The way to stay in the presence of that divine reality which informs everything is to be willing to change. To change whatever has ceased to function within us. To shed whatever we are carrying that is no longer alive. To cast off our dead skin because dead skin can't feel. And without feeling,... there is no chance of wholeness, and wholeness remains our best chance to survive the pain of breaking." From The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class Asteroidea
Order: Forcipulatida
Family: Asteriidae
Genus/species: Pisaster brevispinus
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS The pink sea star reaches a maximum diameter of nearly 65 cm (2 ft); however, individuals are usually smaller. Its central disc has a raised, humplike appearance. They are robust, pink in color and have aboral spines much shorter than those of other Pisaster species, thus its scientific name, which translates as "short-spined sea star."
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT They range from Sitka, Alaska to San Diego County, California. They can occasional be seen in the low intertidal zone, but are more commonly found in deeper water to 90 m (300 ft ) on sand and mud substrates, but sometimes on rocks and pier pilings in calm waters. They cannot tolerate prolonged exposure to air.
DIET IN THE WILD: Pink sea stars prey on live clams, snails, sand dollars, barnacles, mussels, tubedwelling annelid worms, and scavenge on dead fish and squid. On soft surfaces, P. brevispinus digs into sand or mud with its arms. It also can extend its tube feet (the ones around its disk) to a length of 20 cm (8 in). When the tube feet reach a clam buried in the mud, they attach and the sea star hauls it up. On shale, it can lower its stomach into the burrow of a clam and digest the animal in place. Their large size may well be due to their access to a plentiful food supply of large organisms unavailable to potential competitors.
PREDATORS Large adults have few predators, but they may be taken by the sunflower sea star Pycnopodia helianthoides. Sea otters have been known to detach rays to consume gonads, and
sea gulls occasionally feed on individuals exposed during very low tides.
REPRODUCTION They spawn in the spring. Sexes are separate and fertilization takes place externally. Larvae disperse in the water column. Pink stars can live up to 20 years.
REMARKS: Can chemosense clams through sand. May dig down to the clam for 2 –3 days or extend tube feet to the clam a distance equal to the arm radius to 20 cm (7.8 in). Once contacted,the clam is lifted from the substrate or the stomach may be everted to 8 cm (3.15 in) to digest the prey in place. Some sand-bottom invertebrates including the sand dollar Dendraster excentricus and the snail Olivella biplicata chemosense the presence of a pink star and attempt to avoid contact by burrowing.
Tidepool
References
California Acad. of Sciences Tidepool exhibit 2015
Walla Walla Univ. www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/...
EOL eol.org/pages/598470/details
Ron's WORDPRESS SHORTLINK wp.me/p1DZ4b-tA
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157608501343477/
4-18-12, 11-4-15
.... :D? I got bored today?
Plus I felt like I hadn't draw anything decent lately. So I decided to turn on some Venus Hum and get to work. Passed the time nicely X3
Ehh the anatomy and coloring could have been better, but I'm pretty satisfied.
Also, if you haven't heart "PInk Champagne" by Venus Hum... good thing you have me around XD
There were so many flowers in the field, and no matter where I shoot it would turn out to be quite a boring shot. So I found this spot where I could get in close to the side of this pink rannuculus that somewhat sticks out to get a different angle. The result... probably a good Windows wallpaper shot? ;-) Hope you like it.
Strobist: sunpak 26dx at 1/4 up left through shoot through umbrella, silver reflector close in down right of flowers.
Combination of several shots each with 1 or 2 petals falling as I couldn't get a spread pattern of petals in 1 shot so decided to combine in post process
A reflection of the Groothandelsgebouw building in downtown Rotterdam on a pink car parked in the inner court.
202 Pupa Baby Pink
287 Rimmel Bahamas Flirt
209 Pupa Lilac
(20) 688 Essie Lovie Dovie
63 Deborah Marshmallow Candy
288 Kiko rosa fenicottero
301 Pupa Fucsia
(25) 687 Essie Funny Face
681 Essie Status Symbol
311 Kiko rosa elettrico
309 Pupa Fluo Fuchsia
76 Essie Peach Daiquiri
283 Kiko rosa corallo scuro
Can't believe that it's the end of term already. Finlay is on holiday for 8 weeks. My flickr time is going to be limited during the holidays as I will be away.
Looking forward to seeing Jo & Meredith in London. Will have a couple of weeks in Tunisia and also a trip to the Isle of Skye.
Looking forward to reading the Millennium triology by Steig Larsson.
please see it large.
there was the finest mist over everything this morning, and everything looked pretty magical.
incecik bir sabah yagmuru bahcede...
Pink unicorn for my daughter, from the pattern for a horse and unicorn from Funky Friends Factory. I love this pattern! The unicorn turned out so great, although I need to add more stuffing in the legs.
A beautiful, rare and threatened spider orchid from the weekends trip, it was more vibrant than the last time I saw them, such a joy to see and this time with some good hunting friends!
This small bush was established when we bought our house
in 97 but the adjoining maple tree is growing and shading the roses for the past five years we are watching the roses decline
not as full as it was and its branches becoming sparse .
Erika asked me to put some of my luck in dealing with this rose
to give it a better chance ,,so cuttings will be done to try my luck with this plant.
I must agree with her these are powerful smelling flowers it be sad to watch them further fade away.
Azalea Pink Dream - A glorious Azalea with large dazzling pink flowers is now stunning in the middle of winter but spot flowers almost anytime of the year. Not only are the flowers spectacular, the plant is easy to grow.