The Ornamented Being

Song of the Wave by Khalil Gibran

… Alas! Sleeplessness has weakened me!

But I am a lover, and the truth of love

Is strong.

I may be weary, but I shall never die.

I hope you enjoy tomorrow theme because I’ve enjoyed working on it!

These shells remind me of beetle wings!

Just finished watching Summer of the Shark.

Not a good episode to start playing this game. 

He who would search for pearls must dive below. 
John Dryden 

Who would be
A mermaid fair,
Singing alone,
Combing her hair
Under the sea,
In a golden curl
With a comb of pearl,
On a throne?
I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;
And still as I comb I would sing and say,
“Who is it loves me? who loves not me?”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Mermaid

(click the photo for more beautiful photos of waves) 

I need to pack this next time I visit Brighton!!! *snicker*

Beachwear, 1895-1900 

Met

I am quite partial to duckies.

In fact I have a rubber duck shower curtain and an impressive armada of rubber ducks that live in my bathroom.

It’s so large that I could re-inact the Anglo-Spanish Battle in my bathtub if I wanted. 

“Then the weather; it was calm, still, flat, no wind, and star lit. Now that sounds like a picture perfect evening, and it is, but not for spotting icebergs. here’s why; if the water is smooth, and flat, it won’t produce ‘breakers’ around the edges of the iceberg, and believe it or not the brighter it is at night the harder it is to see icebergs, and especially ‘blue bergs.’ Sailors would say later that they had not seen a night like this in 40 years.”

Art by © Ken Marschall