Little Landscapes #45
Bozeman, Montana
2021
Another landscape from the inside of a mussel shell.
I see a major storm front over the ocean on a moonlit night sweeping along the edge of a beach, rapidly obscuring a starry sky with a hint of the Milky Way in the background. To get the image, I did not alter the look of the shell itself much at all, I just filled in around it to make the image rectangular. Here is the unadulterated shell:
I love your eye for detail …. and imagination. Didn’t guess that was a small mussel shell at all.
Thanks Jill. There’s always something to look at no matter what the scale it seems.
Is this shell the one that gave the Mussellshell River in MT its name?
Well, this was a saltwater mussel. But there are freshwater mussels as well. I have no idea to what abundance they can be found on the Musselshell River or what kind of miniature landscapes their shells might off. A field trip might be in order!
Update per visitmt.com: . . .the Musselshell River, named by Lewis and Clark for the freshwater mussels lining the riverbank.
Cool! I hope you do make a field trip! It would be interesting to compare the shells to see if the freshwater variety exhibit similar patterns.