morning ocean

I love mornings like today when you open your eyes to see bright sunlight spilling onto everything in your room.
Plus there is a whole pot of good coffee, and the cozy company of a snuggling puppy while I finish yesterday's too-easy crossword puzzle. I wish I could have today for all day, and not just this quiet morning before I give Winnie to babysitting Nanny and lumber off to work.

Last night I watched 'Ocean Deep' of the Planet Earth series and here are some amazing facts about life:

-the sonar of dolphins underwater leaves trails of iridescent bubbles
-rotten whale blubber looks almost like cotton candy as it's pulled from a carcass by a hungry crab
-there is a Manta Ray who's skeleton is visible through the opening of its mouth
-creatures in the deep ocean are living like the olden days
-a diving range is a tangible space even though it has no physical boundaries
-some corals look like frozen images of swinging glowsticks
-I wonder if some space rockets were modelled after sharks
-Swordfish, no, Sailfish look like they were modelled after Roman Empire battle helmets
-Blue Whales weight 200 tonnes, but it seems impossible to actually obtain a sense of that scale

Fascinating...