{"id":6576,"date":"2017-12-24T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?page_id=6576"},"modified":"2017-12-24T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T20:51:08","slug":"2013-07","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/published-writings-and-art\/salish-sea-stories-48-north-magazine\/2013-07\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 \u2013 6 Piling Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2013-8-Piling-Community.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6692\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2013-8-Piling-Community.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"983\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2013-8-Piling-Community.jpg 983w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2013-8-Piling-Community-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2013-8-Piling-Community-768x675.jpg 768w, https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2013-8-Piling-Community-560x492.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 983px) 100vw, 983px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sketchbook in hand, I found a good Northwest scene for a painting \u2014 a dock, some wooden boats. Someone saw what I was doing and ignored my presence as usual, but later I felt someone really was watching me. You know that feeling? It turned out to be a hermit crab next to me on the piling. Hanging on to a barnacle field and waiting for tide\u2019s return, the little guy and his protective traveling shell-home reminded me that this single piling is like a little city within itself. It was almost completely covered with animals.<\/p>\n<p>The upper-most part that was out of the water at low tide had small acorn barnacles \u2013 definitely low rent. Below that and wet more often than not, periwinkles and larger acorn barnacles, like self-contained efficiency apartments. Below that and always under water were shore crabs, anemones and mussels. Then the high-rent district: tube worms, plumose anemones, ochre stars and black chitons. Now, it occurred to me that every one of there critters is a predator lying in wait to devour whatever it can get its \u2018hands\u2019 on \u2014 or, it was prey for something else. What a scary place to live, but it\u2019s what they call home. There\u2019s a similar place \u2014 and it\u2019s ALSO called Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Eifert paints and writes about wild places. His work can be seen in many national parks across America &#8211; and at larryeifert.com.<\/p>\n<p>***previous*** &#8212; ***next***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketchbook in hand, I found a good Northwest scene for a painting \u2014 a dock, some wooden boats. Someone saw what I was doing and ignored my presence as usual, but later I felt someone really was watching me. You know that feeling? It turned out to be a hermit crab next to me on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/published-writings-and-art\/salish-sea-stories-48-north-magazine\/2013-07\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2013 \u2013 6 Piling Community<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6453,"menu_order":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6576\/revisions\/6701"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}