Come Party at the New York Aquarium!

A Winter Day at the Beach

Sun shining. Blue skies. Zero degrees. Freezing winds.. are you thinking what I'm thinking? :) Day at The Beach! Let's go to Coney Island.
The subway ride there is scenic.

You are greeted by the most beautiful wall mural.


Coney Island is Beautiful in the Snow




Some people were dancing and having a picnic with balloons under the "Palm Tree"


"Chicks" were promenading on the Boardwalk! And that spooky oooOOOooo sound is the closed amusement park's metal howl when nothing but the wind is blowing through it.


Creatures were entertaining at the Aquarium.


Some seemed to be at a party...


A wonderful time was had by all.


When your day starts seeing this fellow

and ends with seeing this.. umm. fellow,

and have Coney Island filling in the hours between,

you can say it was a very good day
My whole Flickr set here

Back from the Dream, From the Archives

For Indie, who took the last picture and inspires so many
Originally posted 9/28/07

The Loneliest Shrimp in the World

600 feet below the ice NASA encounters a little curious shrimp


Why does he remind me of the Nowhere Man?

I hope he/she/it has a shrimpy family tucked in the ice somewhere.. :)

Bullying a Baby?

Awww so cute... :)

Just Ducky!

Happy Birthday Pam! :)

Bloooo

Will Play for Snacks!

Never knew Otters had such cute little chocolately colored paws! Wee fingers!!

The Upward Spiral

The Loneliest Boat in the Universe...

..would be forever adrift on Ligeia Mare

The Lovely Christmas Tree Worm

I love your little tree Mr Eel!

Read all about them on their Wiki

Hands UP

Someday Little Children We'll be Living on the Moon

Susan of Sesame Street ROCKS OUT! :) I always loved this song and now we are even closer to making this come true.



Water is found on the Moon!
NASA'S LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water In Lunar Crater

Twisting

Natural Beauty

I love jewelry that "rings" of the natural world. This one made me think of so many beautiful things. See it here and also support original artists on Etsy.

Drowning Diver Saved by Beluga Whale

Mila the Beluga

More proof of the amazing nature of the creatures we share this earth with- we humans think we are such smarties and yet, Mila, the whale noticed the girl diver in trouble first. Luckily we don't have to wonder how long and at what price her safety it would have taken for one of us humans to notice, Mila didn't just happen to accidentally bump her, she swam to the rescue. Thank you Mila. I hope to be as good a human as you are a whale and always notice and come to help when I can :)


Mila the hero whale to the rescue (pic: Europics)

Amazing rescue: Drowning diver saved by beluga whale
A beluga whale in a Chinese aquarium has rescued a drowning diver by pushing her out of the water.

A spokesman for Harbin Polar Land in the country's north-east Heilongjiang province said the diver had been taking part in a competition at the aquarium when she began suffering sudden cramps in her legs. Entrants were required to dive into the 6-metre-deep cool pool without any breathing equipment. The person who dives the deepest and stays down for the longest time wins the competition.

Yang Yun, an applicant from a local Chinese Medicine College, dived to a depth of 4 metres on her first trial.
"Maybe I was too nervous, and my legs had sudden cramps," she explained. "I never dive into the water so deep and so cold. I was so nervous then.
"When I was choking with water and plummeting to the bottom, a sudden force pushed me out of the water," said Yang, who swam to the bank and was rescued by other competitors.
An activity organiser said the beluga, Mila, is very familiar with humans and she spotted the problem first.
"We didn't notice the problem until we saw Mila holding the diver's leg with her mouth and pushing her out of the water," said the organiser.
Yang Yun thanked the audience and Mila by diving into the tank again after making a full recovery.

Via Mirror UK
And more here!

(I am still at work on my project and since I am just one wee human I can't be all the places I want to at once but there is an end in sight then back to normal and with a nice thing to share in the future. I have wanted to "have something done" like this for a long time but just decided that to have it happen I would have to do it myself so that's what I am doing for better or worse, I am making it happen! Also Rick is saving my moments of "oh no it's ruined!" many times so he has been doing more than helping too! So thanks to everyone for understanding my awayness and it is just temporary. Hope you have been having wonderful summers or winters depending on what end of the planet you live. See you soon!)

On the Water over the Weekend :)

Pix from Rick out on our friend Joe's sailboat!
Recogize that wee Lighthouse? It's the real inspiration for the children's book, The Little Red Lighthouse and the Big Gray Bridge! Still there as proof even small things are important. :)