Slim Pickin's

Not a lot going on shell wise this week...

Yesterday




When it's cold or windy like it's been, I enjoy searching the sand dunes at the state park.

Here are a few photos from this weekend...
Yesterday






Today






A 30 second video clip of tonight's sunset

Weekend Shelling

Yesterday




Friday
While walking at lunchtime at the state park, found this Lettered Olive covered with barnacles


Today




Tonight's sunset video clip

Pickin', Pluckin' & Diggin' for Seashells

Some folks are surprised it can get below freezing in Florida but here in the panhandle, most every winter we see it and shudder BRRRR! In fact, it was 22 degrees last week when I got in my car to go to work. Nevertheless, like the mail carriers, little will keep a sheller from shelling.So this past week, my finds were from picking up along the shore, plucking out of the sand dunes or and some digging.

Today, I dug up some goodies which included a family of Bittersweet clam shells along with a couple of big broken pieces of a Horse Conch & Lightning Whelk.




Here's a pic of finding the Lightning Whelk which of course turned out to be just a piece of it


Wednesday at lunch, here a few goodies I found sticking out of a sand dune at the state park


Murex




Yesterday I took pics of my Seashell Gallery






















And here are a few misc photos from this past week... more of which can be found here:
http://cathyscamera.blogspot.com/

Monday sunrise


Morning moon


Tuesday Hawk


Wednesday deer


Henry the Heron on pier patrol


Thursday yellow-bellied sapsucker


Busted water pipe created pretty icicles on this bush in 22 deg weather


Saturday morning moon


Bambi wandered off the reservation again


Sunset

Happy 2015 New Year, Shellers!

Lauren and I started the year off right by shelling!



Jan 2 dug up more goodies


Jan 3 went back to my honey hole at the state park




Keepers


Jan 4 after the rain stopped went back again... so nice having the time off from work :)


Framed a Christmas card and then hot glued shells on


First sunset of the year in Panama City Beach - may all your hopes and dreams come true in 2015!

Celebrated the Birth of Jesus Christ this week & Found Lots of Starfish/Sea Stars

The wise men followed a star to Baby Jesus and the day after Christmas lots of starfish wash ashore. The drop in temp killed them, sad to say. Here's my starfish (or sea star) photos...

The day after Christmas and found these along the beach


My fav is the Royal Starfish


Went out again and found some more




Close up... 4 kinds


Later in the day, walked a couple of miles down to the jetty and found MORE...


Close up


Brought these back plus a few more


My starfish haul on the patio drying out


Today brought them inside and already gave away 12 of them


Still Life of starfish, barnacles and oyster shells


ALSO found shells...

Christmas eve got off work early and went digging...




Day after Christmas


Orange Tellin... first time to find one and both front and bottom still connected!


Yesterday morning




Afternoon dig at the state park


My view while perched on a sand dune digging for hidden treasure






This morning




Condo Flyby


This afternoon






By the way, we had a White (sand) Christmas!




Pretty Cockles and Poinsettia