{"id":2401,"date":"2010-07-29T12:09:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2013-01-05T17:26:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T22:26:11","slug":"seashells-under-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/seashells-under-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Seashells Under The Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Whelks Under the Rainbow\" href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelks-Under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2424\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/seashells-under-the-rainbow\/whelks-under-the-rainbow-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelks-Under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1280275015&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Whelks Under the Rainbow&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Whelks Under the Rainbow\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Whelks Under the Rainbow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelks-Under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2424  aligncenter\" title=\"Whelks Under the Rainbow\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelks-Under-the-Rainbow1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Whelks Under the Rainbow\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelks-Under-the-Rainbow1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelks-Under-the-Rainbow1.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We headed to the beach after a nice, well needed rain shower on Tuesday evening. \u00a0When we started walking down the path to the beach, the sky seemed to get a strange yellowish tint &#8230;&#8230;.then\u00a0the rainbow. But wait&#8230;..a double rainbow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Beach Path to the Rainbow\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Beach-Path-to-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4003\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/seashells-under-the-rainbow\/beach-path-to-the-rainbow-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Beach-Path-to-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"480,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1280274472&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Beach Path to the Rainbow&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beach Path to the Rainbow\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Beach Path to the Rainbow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Beach Path to the Rainbow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Beach-Path-to-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4003  aligncenter\" title=\"Beach Path to the Rainbow\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Beach-Path-to-the-Rainbow1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beach Path to the Rainbow\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Beach-Path-to-the-Rainbow1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Beach-Path-to-the-Rainbow1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Snowy Egret Under the Rainbow\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-Egret-Under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4004\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/seashells-under-the-rainbow\/snowy-egret-under-the-rainbow-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-Egret-Under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"505,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1280274630&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Snowy Egret Under the Rainbow&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Snowy Egret Under the Rainbow\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Snowy Egret Under the Rainbow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Snowy Egret Under the Rainbow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-Egret-Under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4004  aligncenter\" title=\"Snowy Egret Under the Rainbow\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-Egret-Under-the-Rainbow1-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy Egret Under the Rainbow\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-Egret-Under-the-Rainbow1-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Snowy-Egret-Under-the-Rainbow1.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Whelk under the Rainbow\" href=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelk-under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4001\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/seashells-under-the-rainbow\/whelk-under-the-rainbow-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelk-under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1280274981&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Whelk under the Rainbow&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Whelk under the Rainbow\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Whelk under the Rainbow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Whelk under the Rainbow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelk-under-the-Rainbow1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4001  aligncenter\" title=\"Whelk under the Rainbow\" src=\"http:\/\/static.iloveshelling.com\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelk-under-the-Rainbow1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Whelk under the Rainbow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelk-under-the-Rainbow1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Whelk-under-the-Rainbow1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I took a picture of this live LIGHTNING WHELK (for you Barbara!), a man out of nowhere plops an even bigger live whelk right beside it. It looks like I staged those 2 whelks in the first picture but that&#8217;s exactly how he put it down&#8230;..perfect! Not 5 seconds later, a sweet little girl came running over to see those 2 whelks. Her grandparents Janice and Ted saw that I was photographing the shells and told her to leave them alone&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;I felt like I was in slow motion&#8230;..snapping away and telling them\u00a0Kayleigh (from yesterday&#8217;s post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/cherub-under-the-rainbow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cherub Under the Rainbow<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">)<\/span> <\/strong>was quite alright if it was okay if I photographed her. She is aaaddorrraable! A little seashell cherub has come to inspect the whelks to make sure they are happy and healthy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Seashell Cherub\" href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Seashell-Cherub1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2426\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/seashells-under-the-rainbow\/seashell-cherub-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Seashell-Cherub1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"320,240\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;iLoveShelling.com&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1280275220&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Seashell Cherub&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Seashell Cherub\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;iLoveShelling.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Seashell Cherub&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Seashell-Cherub1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2426  aligncenter\" title=\"Seashell Cherub\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Seashell-Cherub1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Seashell Cherub\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Seashell-Cherub1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Seashell-Cherub1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This one is MY little seashell cherub under the rainbow&#8230;&#8230;.teehee<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Shelling Rambo Under the Rainbow\" href=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Shelling-Rambo-Under-the-Rainbow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2404\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/29\/seashells-under-the-rainbow\/shelling-rambo-under-the-rainbow\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Shelling-Rambo-Under-the-Rainbow.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DMC-ZS3&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1280274834&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.1&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Shelling Rambo Under the Rainbow\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Shelling Rambo Under the Rainbow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Shelling-Rambo-Under-the-Rainbow-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2404  aligncenter\" title=\"Shelling Rambo Under the Rainbow\" src=\"http:\/\/iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Shelling-Rambo-Under-the-Rainbow-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Shelling Rambo Under the Rainbow\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Shelling-Rambo-Under-the-Rainbow-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Shelling-Rambo-Under-the-Rainbow-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We headed to the beach after a nice, well needed rain shower on Tuesday evening. \u00a0When we started walking down the path to the beach, the sky seemed to get a strange yellowish tint &#8230;&#8230;.then\u00a0the rainbow. But wait&#8230;..a double rainbow! As I took a picture of this live LIGHTNING WHELK (for you Barbara!), a man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38,1670,442,2007],"tags":[112,441,444,440,2050,2082,71,80,2128,443,445],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lightning-whelk-whelk","category-rainbows","category-snowy-egret","category-whelk","tag-beach","tag-cherub","tag-island","tag-rainbow","tag-sanibel","tag-seashells","tag-shelling","tag-shells","tag-snowy-egret","tag-whelks","tag-wildlife-photographs","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Nubb-CJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iloveshelling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}