‘Stars’ Returning

Bright sunshine made-warmer by a near-calm wind this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, supposedly an indicator of our immediate future. The next couple of days, as indicated by the percent-chance of precipitation-scale on the WunderBlog‘s weather thingy, a rare slide along at zero until at least early Friday — and again depending on the wind,…

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Sea Star Demise

Overcast with some occasional sharp sunshine this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, with rain still expected for Friday — could be more than half-an-inch, but we’ll just have to wait and see, huh? In local ocean news, apparently a horrible ‘wasting disease‘ attacking sea stars (or, ‘star fish’) all along the Pacific coast, has…

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Sea Slug Serenade in Warm Water

As the earth continues to warm, oceans especially, the higher temperatures create strange, sometimes horrible glitches in the system, the natural order of living is thrown out of whack — up here along Humboldt County’s shoreline, we’ve also seen the effects. Along with the “sea star wasting syndrome,” a disease attacking ‘star fish‘ in Pacific waters…

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Dog Virus and Sea Stars

Bright and cool this late afternoon, but without DST, nighttime seems to come quick, getting-darker faster. End-of-a-terrible mystery news: The “melting,” or “wasting” disease horribly killing sea stars — or ‘star fish‘ — along the West Coast, including right here in Humboldt County, is apparently caused by a type of parvovirus, bad shit usually found…

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Not Bright — Starfish ‘Goo’

Bright sunshine sprinkled twixt clouds and fog along California’s north coast this Saturday morning, and onward into the weekend. Most of what humans do in order to continue civilization has great effect, even a small touch here could create calamity/catastrophe over there, produce strange, not-so-pretty shit. (Illustration found here). I vaguely remember reading a brief…

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