[mkirkpatrick]

I was fortunate enough this year to be able to pick pomegranates from the tree in Turkey,
and to further wonder at the perfection exhibited within the fruit,after eating one there seems to be more left than you started with!

To follow on this theme,I recently while walking along a tidal estaury,I noticed what at first
appeared to be gravel or grit,I bent down and picked up some,to my great surprise what
I thought was prehaps grit,turned out to be minute shells,I put some in a bag,and took them home,I looked at these very tiny shells with the aid of a magnifying glass,and was
in awe of the perfect spirals on each shell,even more so when I realised that the only real
difference between those spirals on the tiny shells,and those spirals of a galaxy,was just
size,the ratio was the same!

regards michael.