Reason for lack of updates.

Elrin and I've been off to Nags Head, fishing. Caught 12 clearnose skates (all in one day and off of Jennette's Pier), kept 4 of them. Skate make excellent eating. Also caught about 20 pounds of seaweed shore-fishing. The said seaweed contained this tiny crab (actually, 3 of them. Plus some tiny shrimp and a hermit crab.)

There were lots of gulls. They may or may not have been encouraged by bread.

And 4 mornings out of 6, I went out seashell hunting at dawn. May have been a wee bit obsessive about it, but, what can you do.

Now, off to paint some last-second large pieces for a show 'm chronically short for.

Like the seashell says: