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Created at Cape Canaveral a few days ago by Florida artist Todd Brittingham, this sand sculpture celebrates Earth Day, but also marks the end of the space shuttle program through the fourteen stars, each dedicated to one of the astronauts who lost their lives on the Challenger and Columbia.
The volunteers who help create the sculpture have arranged themselves as more stars around the work.
[Photo by Craig Rubadoux, FLORIDA TODAY]
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"Around Northern Europe, beneath the great chalk cliffs of Dover, Calais and Denmark," winters the glaucous gull, Larus hyperboreus. Blue-green comprises a wide range of hues; the bird would not be cryptically colored if standing on the glauconite.
Posted by: Richard Bready | April 20, 2011 at 08:30 AM
Cool!
Posted by: Walter | April 20, 2011 at 01:42 PM
Hmmm - I had forgotten glaucous gulls, even though many years ago in my Arctic days I had frequent run-ins with these rather large, and certainly not particularly blue-green, birds. However, for aggression, the arctic terns always won hands down, relatively diminutive thought they were - they quickly ran off the glaucous gulls and then returned to attacking us (we had to wear hard hats to the beach).
Posted by: Sandglass | April 20, 2011 at 02:28 PM
Nice,very nice))
Posted by: david | May 08, 2011 at 11:53 AM