Mazzaella splendens is one of those red seaweeds known for the looks it throws your way. Its iridescence isn’t a given, but when things fall into place, rainbow leaf, as it is sometimes known, lights up the low intertidal.
Cut off from the shore, I’m grateful for simple pleasures past.
Addendum: There couldn’t be a bigger mismatch between Mazzaella‘s beautiful blades and what’s going on in the real, human world. I was not able to finish this post until I dreamt:
There I was, in the stands at a packed Major League ballpark. A day game. “Curveball!” I exclaimed aloud, letting my my eyes rise to follow a sky-high pop up. When they drifted back down, I startled myself when I noticed, on my lap, Druehl and Clarkston’s Pacific Seaweeds. The incongruity was so jarring it woke me.
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Hmm. Beautiful photos. Stay-at-home dreaming! Play ball. 🙂
Oh yeah, John. I was looking forward to a game or two this season. Mariners and Giants are my teams. If I’m lucky I get to a game or two in Seattle and San Francisco.
…the seaweed has the look of satin sheets.
An apt description. I wish I would have thought of it. Do you mind if I steal it for some unknown future use?
Please feel free to use it!
What a bizarre dream!! Glad it drew you to today’s subject. Nicely done
What a dream, I know! I’ve been feeling like anything I might have to share is tone deaf in light of the corona virus. It’s an eternal struggle, not restricted to just the current virus, but that amplifies it.
Beautiful — I will look for that seaweed when we can go down to the sea again. While looking for a soaring baseball out the corner of my eye.
Beautiful post. You found beauty in an object that I don’t often think of as beautiful! Fabulous. I love that dream, too!
Wild dream, eh? Thanks for a great challenge.
What a combination… baseball and seaweed! I’ll take your dream to mean we’ll eventually get back to something resembling normal! 😀
I’ll take your optimism. We can do this!
They are indeed beautiful, silk and satin, shimmering. You have strange dreams, just like me. Often happy to wake up from them.
Well, we’re something of a match, aren’t we? And, yes, those satiny blades are really something.
Ha, yes – and I have met many introverts in the blogosphere. So I feel at home!