Nature is satisfied with little: and if she is, I am also.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Desert Cottontail, Tucson, Arizona
Wee Sand Dollar
Shortly after moving to the Central Oregon Coast I was delighted to find a tiny Sand Dollar (Dendraster excentricus)*, roughly the size of a dime. It was the smallest one I had yet found…until today.
How in the world did this tiny, delicate, calcium carbonate structure survive the pounding surf, tumbling beach cobbles, and footsteps of beach combers? New treasures every day…
Today’s wee Sand Dollar, both tiny Sand Dollars.
*Technically, I found Sand Dollar tests (the proper term for their skeletal remains).
03-09 Sol Shine
The soul survives its adventures.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Thistle, Catalina State Park, Arizona 2008
03-08 Sol Shine
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whelan Lake, California 2008
Today’s Treasures
Driftwood balancing act, horses on the beach, tiny Dungeness Crab, unknown fossil and Katherinella (bivalve) fossil both from the Astoria Formation (17-15 mya).
03-07 Sol Shine
Know your own happiness.
~ Jane Austen
Rivoli’s Hummingbird (formerly Magnificent), Hummingbird Banding,
Madera Canyon, Arizona 2009
03-06 Sol Shine
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Squirrel, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 2010
03-05 Sol Shine
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
~ E. B. White
Western Screech Owl, Tucson, Arizona 2009
03-04 Sol Shine
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~ Anais Nin
Hot Air Balloon, Tucson, Arizona 2010
03-03 Sol Shine
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain
Sailboat, San Diego, California 2012
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