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Half Moon Bay – Memorial Day 2009
Anemone 
Mussels, barnacles and snails! 
Close up of mussels 
Sunflower starfish 
Sea Urchins 
Sea Urchin in their cubby hole 
A lot of cubby holes full of Sea Urchins 
Starfish – black/purple 
Starfish – orange 
Macro closeup of orange starfish 
Macro closeup of purple starfish 
Blue Snail shell Tide pools! Had to get up early early and get to Half-moon Bay/ Moss Beach for low-tide. From there we spent 3 hours during low-tide walking around on the tide pools checking out all sorts of amazing things that are hidden by the regular tides. Apparently during Memorial day, low-tide is at it’s lowest so we had a crowd of kids, teenagers and adults all wandering around to observe aquatic nature.
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April 30th – Garden update
Only 2 weeks and my garden is finally starting something. Nothing to brag about, but just happy to see a change.
Taken with a Macro on a tripod this time.
Despite my obsession, it’s relaxing to work the garden. -
2 more months to go!
This is one earlier of the June bearing strawberry plants in our raised vegetable bed.
Taken by my wife with a Canon SD790 IS in Macro mode who clearly has better eye for lighting and a steadier hand than I do.
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Strawberries
The Pioneer Woman had these great simple instructions to build a raised vegetable bed. I built a smaller version with 2×6’s cut at 4 feet length. Then doubled the height. You can’t tell but there’s hardware cloth underneath. When strawberry production slows down in winter, I’ll re-do this right and put some commercial grade weed cover under the hardware cloth to deter gophers further. They can’t break through it currently, but it hasn’t stopped them from trying.
Taken with my new & used macro 60mm f/2.8 lens.