I was diving with a group at night on the black volcanic sand, and I saw this nudibranch cruising over the pebbles.  I tried to attract the attention of the others, but they were too busy playing with their $10,000 cameras, so I was the only one who got the photo (with my relatively cheap […]

That you should all be honing your submissions for Taos Toolbox, the master class for writing SF and fantasy, which will be held July 6-19, 2014, in Taos Ski Valley.  Teaching will be Nancy Kress, Walter Jon Williams, and special lecturer Ian Tregillis. Submissions open on December 1!  And in the meantime, sharpen your prose.

Mother Ocean must be singing songs of sweet, sweet love, because I keep finding nudibranchs in pairs.  Nudibranchs are found all over the reef, and most of them are small and lovely.  (The shorter nudis in these photos are only a couple centimeters long.) Nudibranchs are basically sea snails that have lost, or rather drastically […]