Muscle shell tattoo

Blue mussel shell in watercolour.

2-C - This is artist Mary Helsaple's drawing of the paired muscle shells for the dingbat for short story number two "When Whales Watch."

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I had to try my hand at Cioppini for dinner this week...I love fish stew! It does need a lot of different types of seafood, however, and I was loving the variety of shapes that the shells came in. The mussels are sharp (I cut my finger getting the meat out), the clams are thick and interesting. The Oysters look like they grow layer after thin layer of shell over a heavy inside. The soup was delicious, and the shells are now home to hen and chickens plants in my rock garden!