Saturday, May 22, 2010

Medusa



Photograph - Henry Kaiser



Jelly mushroom - mushroom jelly?

Sycphomedusa - Diplulmaris antarctica


10 comments:

  1. RK said all there is to say!

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  2. Yes, my God. Ravishing. Brings a lump to the throat.

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  3. they had a wonderful display of jellyfish at the aquarium here in Boston last year and I found it hard to tear myself away....and they also had these SEA BRANCHES or something like that in another display, live twigs that were fastinating...
    thanks...

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  4. we just went to the aquarium and spent an inordinate amount of time staring at the jellies. they are magical.

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  5. All thanks to Henry and this beautiful Medusa.

    And all thanks to you who echo her splendour.

    L, C xx

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  6. Dear Melissa - I wonder if the wee creatures you saw are 'pipefish?" Certain species do look exactly like sticks.. they're well camouflaged in their underwater environment and you have to know what to look for in order to identify them? (Usually, it's their fast-moving little gills that give them away.)

    Like you, I could watch jellyfish for houuuurs. ; )

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  7. Transfixing!

    I wonder whether we move in air as gracefully as they move in water. Some of us do: the dancers.

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  8. Dear Mim

    I imagine you do (move as gracefully in air as they do in water).

    Thank you for offering us this image - I keep returning to it.

    L< C

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