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Huntington Beach CA
Canon EOS 1000D
26 Spetember 2009

Angus watching a spider building her evening web - the bottom strands were anchored to this park bench, and the upper part of the web was in the overhanging tree 10-15 feet up. Shortly after this, a couple of families nearby stopped to talk and one of their younger boys came over to watch the spider as well. He told Angus his father had sprayed some spiders in their garage, and Angus got a little offended, shaking his finger and telling him a bit loudly (volume control is something we have to remind him about fairly often) that spiders shouldn't be killed. I stopped him and was telling him speak more calmly when the kid's dad called his son back to him by saying loud enough to be heard by us that Angus was "creeping him out." I went over and explained that Angus gets a little pedantic about things he feels strongly about, but he just has a different way of speaking and the dad kind of went, "Oh, ok," but it got my hackles up a bit (although I suppose the other parent's were too). I was standing right there; did he think Angus was going to do something to his child or that I would have allowed it? No such thing would have ever occured to Angus in any case - his little sister picks on him and he never thinks to fight back.

And my brother tells me I need to relearn how to knit because this pattern is free!

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer09/PATTcrab.php

Pencil urchin, two sponges, and "sexy shrimp"- so named for the way they sway their abdomens back & forth when walking. First time I'd seen these, although they are apparently fairly common home aquarium animals.

Aquarium of the Pacific
Long Beach CA
Casio Exilim EX-Z80A
15 February 2009

(  Burdz!...and this camera shoots VIDEO...squee! )

Just for fun...( two other pics from the Monterey Bay Aquarium... )

Grainy Jelly
Aquarium of the Pacific
Kyocera Switchback phone camera
01 February 2009

stumbled across this in a blog somewhere...filled with testy goodness...
( sea urchin music video... )

Hey, someone just sent us two of these! Was it you Dave? I know you frequent http://www.woot.com/ and http://shirt.woot.com/...

Hee! Kyoot! Thanks!

Last week's Divebum's Photos of the Week has some beautiful video (2:44 minutes) of marine life off Cabo San Lucas, Baja...

http://week.divebums.com/2007/Sep04-2007/index.html
(last in the list of photos)