great photo. i find myself coming back again and again to look at. such a weird thing to think that it is not a stone, it is (or was) a living creature, leaving behind stones that make us wonder if stones can become living. what really is the difference between you and it?

"What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you? And all the six of us to the amoeba in one direction and to the back-ward schizophrenic in another?" - Gregory Bateson