Wow, I'm so envious that you saw a horseshoe crab, those guys are amazing.
Woodlice are called 'slaters' in the part of Scotland that I'm from, they seem to have different local names all over Britain. I often see them late at night when I go out to post my Diary Project envelopes. I find them very endearing, possibly because I was so obsessed with fossils as a child.
great photo. i find myself coming back again and again to look at. such a weird thing to think that it is not a stone, it is (or was) a living creature, leaving behind stones that make us wonder if stones can become living. what really is the difference between you and it?
"What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you? And all the six of us to the amoeba in one direction and to the back-ward schizophrenic in another?" - Gregory Bateson
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Woodlice are called 'slaters' in the part of Scotland that I'm from, they seem to have different local names all over Britain. I often see them late at night when I go out to post my Diary Project envelopes. I find them very endearing, possibly because I was so obsessed with fossils as a child.
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"What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you? And all the six of us to the amoeba in one direction and to the back-ward schizophrenic in another?" - Gregory Bateson
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