Meri's Play Place

 Murrelets Flying in Formation They skim  through the air just above the water, beaks pointing east toward first light, arranged just so, a leader, his three or four loyal lieutenants jockeying for position and the rest  of the murrelet troops arrayed behind,  a surprisingly silent procession. "Rossano's Mirrored Murrelets"  - photo © 2009 Meri Arnett-Kremian. All rights reserved. In the pastel light, the still pool reveals a parallel flight, submerged, bellies exposed, floating in perfect formation upside-down, a dark ribbon joining each one to his double like a bloodless umbilical cord.