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This is from last spring, my family was staying on Virginia beach while we attended my cousin's graduation from medical school.
WA’s Seashells Hospitality Group recently celebrated the 20 year anniversary of its front office receptionist Sue Morris, who has worked in the company’s Scarborough property since it began operating more than two decades ago now.
She’s pictured aboveright on a sparkling Scarborough day with the property’s gm Christie Vanderbroek.
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I've lived in the Daytona area since I was 10, and one thing we don't usually see here are really big, or really great looking seashells. Mostly, when you walk along our pristine, white, powdery shoreline, you find clam shells, and periwinkles, but rarely anything like a conch, or the smaller shells that have that shape. It was an unusual sight to see all of these pretty shells strewn about the piling.
My brother has been finding sand dollars lately, which we've never seen here..EVER! Once in a blue moon I've found this type, but never sand dollars. Makes me wonder what's up with the tides and why these shells which are normally found further south are washing up here. This bunch, I thought, looked almost as if they'd been placed there by someone. Very curious.......
I use pearl shimmer paper for card and for seashells. Seashells i draw by stencil and stick them by 3D stickers.
These Works of Art were created by Mother Nature at Lover's Key, FL. It's a great place for shelling.
9 x 6 inches / 23 x 15 cm, crayon on paper, 2009.
From 100 Drawings In 1 Month, Jan 19 - Feb 19 2009.
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Pendant framed by a "raw" stitch.
I'm rather pleased with this picture, the hand is high-key-ish and provides a nice backdrop to the pendant, which got some added highlight by a sparkler flash from the front. The usual 60x90 soft-box is used as main light.
Day 89 ... and i learnt a new word: operculum.
I'd discovered quite some time ago what these little shell fragments that one sees on the beach are. To myself, i started calling them "doors". (And there's many a live seashell i've picked up on the reef that has slammed its door in my face). Now i've discovered they have a "real" name: operculum.
Quote: The foot of many gastropods bears an operculum that seals the shell opening (aperture) when the head-foot is retracted into the shell.
In future, i shall try to use the correct term ... but what's the betting that i forget it, and go back to referring to them as "doors".