Nature

Distinct head
Bilateral symmetry
Mantle and arms

Colorful discarded bait temporarily decorates the beach.

“Anything that will bite a hook can be caught with squid.” – Dawn Aylesworth

Beach forage
Gregarious nature
Crustacean scavenging

Interesting reflection patterns appear in wet sand at the edge of the surf, as grackles dig for small invertebrates.

“The common grackle is known to be extremely opportunistic.” – Shane Gannaway

Wavering line
Flyway presence
Attachment capacity

A flock of geese congregate at Ocean Lake and occasionally take a spin out over the Atlantic.

“They have passed over us like an eraser over a blackboard, wiping away whatever was there before they came.” – Wallace Stegner

Consciously justified
Interpretations denied
Higher places

A nondescript environmental detail that was previously neglected becomes a focus of attention.

“Ontology seems the more numinous the less it can be laid down in definite contents that would give the meddlesome intellect something to latch on to.” – Theodor W.Adorno

Resoluteness reveal
Sufficiently clarified
Distinctive attunement

Some kinds of birds can be identified solely on their silhouette when in flight.

“But being “is” only in the understanding of that being to whose being something like an understanding of being belongs.” – Martin Heidegger

Tight relationships
Subsystems turn
Coherent organization

Proportionality between cause and effect is evident in a swamp.

“There is no objective way to determine whose view is right and whose is wrong, since the agents effectively live in different environments—although they may find that some of the regularities they infer appear to be similar.” – Francis Heylighen

Four gonads
Horseshoe-shaped
Otherwise translucent

At the tideline, a beached moon jellyfish waits for the drying sun.

“Move like a jellyfish, rhythm means nothing.You go with the flow you don’t stop.” – Jack Johnson

Organic matter
Random combinations
Tremendous events

The colors and textures of autumn produce subtle beauty.

“All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.” – Henry David Thoreau

Perennial grass
Texture structure
Move in the breeze

From both far and near, tall grass is an interesting feature of the shore landscape.

“The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again.” – Kristin Cashore

Devour remains
Replenish source
Eventual nothingness

Just above the tide line, an expired bird slowly sinks into the sand.

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling