“The juveniles are fun to watch. The young males enjoy sparring, often in the shallow rocky areas off shore. That play, characteristic of male mammals of many species, humans included, is pretty clearly fun and, certainly in the case of elephant seals, it serves to prepare them for the dominance battles as adults. Seals in the rookery often appear to visitors as very “lazy.” They certainly know how to relax. It is important to realize, however, that they are all fasting – no food and no water – for their time in the rookery. It is a measure of the importance to the seals of that youthful play that they indulge in it at all.” – Friends of the Elephant Seal’s website, 2012.
Allow me to share these photos and speak to you as they spoke to me. God’s gifts are in abundance. We can harvest them, all we need is to be still and appreciate them in its pure forms.
Even this seascape has most of the colors we love, as if an artist’s palette: apple green, sea blue, salmon orange, blue skies, white clouds, gray hills, coral red, white sand and even dark green.
Have a great Halloween, and remember to vote this November 6, 2012, it is important that we move forward!
