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“Borgen Aftonfrid” (Rough translation is Castle of Evening Peace) in Sjölanda, Sweden. This house whas built by John A Ekström by and by as he collected stones during walks in the forest. He longed for a peacful place to write his poems about nature.
Contributed by Helen Niklasson.

“Borgen Aftonfrid” (Rough translation is Castle of Evening Peace) in Sjölanda, Sweden. This house whas built by John A Ekström by and by as he collected stones during walks in the forest. He longed for a peacful place to write his poems about nature.

Contributed by Helen Niklasson.

(Reblogged from earthflesh)

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rhamphotheca:

Sea pens (order Pennatulacea)

… are colonial marine cnidarians. There are 16 families within the order; they are thought to have a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and temperate waters worldwide. Sea pens are grouped with the octocorals (“soft corals”), together with sea whips and gorgonians.

The sea pen fossil record is patchy and disputed; while the earliest accepted fossils are known from the Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale (Thaumaptilon), similar fossils from the Ediacaran (ala Charnia) may represent the dawn of sea pens. Precisely what these early fossils are, however, is not decided…

(read more: Wikipedia)

(photo: Purple Sea Pen, Virgularia sp., by Nick Hobgood)