midweek in NSCAD extended studies [Halifax]

as usual

there are bundles to be opened

these have seaweed in them

and are clamped with found shells

a student brought in this box

of treasures

late morning

we walked to Point Pleasant 

to dip cloth into the seawater

[earlier ideas of trying that closer to the Port

had been abandoned

due to oily slicks

and copper arsenate treated wharf posts]

oops

noticed this after the baptisms

shall be extra thorough in the boiling department

one of my samples from today

more delicious bundles

and above [and two below] some very fine

student samples

folks are clearly paying attention in class :)

the blue bits in the image above

are prints from the little stalks

that remain after the evil invasive seeds

from Japanese knotweed [Polygonum cuspidatum]

have flown off to wreak havoc in the whirled