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dungeness crab

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A tiny crab just walked right out onto the shore. I was amazed.
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The fact that it ignored me was doubly amazing.
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The bright sand, as usual, gave my camera difficulties. Here is a leg-generated shadow.
The tide was rising, and it dug in as a wave washed over.
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I used up all of my commentary on the others, but here's one more that the what's-new will probably feature at top.

This is, of course, before the digging-into-sand photo. It couldn't be after it, because it would've just been a picture of sand, with me asserting that there was a crab hidden in there.
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They're leaving because I was too close for comfort.
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The web tells me that the male clasps the female for a few days before she's ready to molt and it's time for them to mate. The web also tells me that December is not mating season, but I saw a number of Dungeness crabs who did not regard the web as the final authority on this matter.
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You can see the front of her face upside-down. It's good for one's perspective to consider how this must be a very exciting time for them and yet you can't tell when a crab is supposed to be attractive or even remember how to tell a male dungeness crab from a female dungeness crab. There's your perspective. You're a sort of ape that can stand on the outside of a particular planet.


Update: once again stumbled upon the Zhuangzi quotation that, according to our friend wikipedia, goes:


Men claim that Mao [Qiang] and Lady Li were beautiful, but if fish saw them they would dive to the bottom of the stream; if birds saw them they would fly away, and if deer saw them they would break into a run. Of these four, who knows how to fix the standard of beauty in the world?
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