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Black Turnstone
Arenaria melanocephala
(L 9.25" WS 21" Wt 4.2 oz)
Found along western rocky shores
from Alaska through Baja California.
North Point
Morro Bay
10Oct2012
May you turn
stone, my daughter,
into silk. May you make men
better
than they are.
(Stephen Dunne)
Arenaria in Latin means
relating to sand; melano-
cephala is Greek for black-
headed.
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