The happiest people are not the people without problems, but the people who know how to solve them.
~ Robert Seashore
Cleaning the Fresnel Lens, Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, Oregon 2006
Colorful Crab
Most of the crab exuvia I stumble across during my beach strolls are from Dungeness Crabs, which are commonly a dull buff color. Which is why this bright red shell attracted my attention. Fittingly, the Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus) is named for it’s bright shell. I’m glad I flipped it over to peek inside the shell, that purple is gorgeous!
What purpose does that inner splash of color serve? I can’t think of any biological reason for it. It certainly doesn’t seem necessary for the crab’s survival. Then again, I wonder, maybe all beauty is like that? Not one of the basic necessities of life but something that makes life worth living…
08-25 Sol Shine
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a ride!”
~ Hunter S. Thompson
End of the Day, Rodeo, New Mexico 2009
08-24 Sol Shine
Shine like the whole universe is yours.
~ Rumi
Rosehip, Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park, Bristol, Maine 2007
08-23 Sol Shine
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
~ Theodore N. Vail
Green Anole, Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia 2007
08-22 Sol Shine
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
~ Walter Bagehot
American Coot, Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona 2012
08-21 Sol Shine
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.
~ Albert Einstein
Javelina Rears, Tucson, Arizona 2010
08-20 Sol Shine
Light tomorrow with today.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Clark’s Nutcracker, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon 2008
08-19 Sol Shine
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
~ Anon
Fog Drip on Sitka Spruce, Cape Meares, Oregon 2018
08-18 Sol Shine
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
~ James Allen
Bison, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota 2010
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