washed up on the shore of reality

Janny Wurts, 'The Wizard of Owls', ''Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine'', Vol. 5, #3,1993

These are Lumpsuckers, they're cute and grumpy. These are only babies, cos they can grow to a foot long and become... well, a LUMP. Hehe. They have attachment feelers (it does have a name, but brain cannot recall what it is right now) on their bellies, which allow them to grip rocks. The reason they are being bred in large numbers is because they are natural pesticides against sea lice; which effect fish farmers' stocks of fish (usually Salmon). The Lumpsuckers will (gently) attach themselves to the fish and eat the lice. I love these little guys, watching them chase food is so cute.

'Gothic Church over Treetops in the Moonlight'. Carl Gustav Carus. c. 1840.

I just finished reading What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman and I very much enjoyed it

in memory of my childhood fish tank lamp

Cygnus A ©

From the car files: Ad for the Plymouth Barracuda - 1968.