you’ve got flair

this is a memento from a lunch date with my husband this summer. steve is an oyster lover. i enjoy them too, not quite like he does, but i do like the way oysters can instantly transport you to sun-soaked afternoons at the sea in one swift gulp. i pocketed this shell, after enjoying it’s briny bivavle deliciousness, for two reasons: the awesome purple fringe, and the perfectly placed barnacle that looks more like a beauty mark than an imperfection. in a word, this oyster shell has flair. it’s now a paper-weight on my desk, and lives in perfect harmony with all the other bits of nature that collect there. i call it my desk, but really, it is half specimens table, half iMac workspace. the ancient and the modern living side-by-side. a metaphor for our times.

oyster shell