Dumping old pickled carrots into the sink caused this little seductive still life to take form. Do you ever put carrot sticks into the pickle jar when the pickles are all gone?
Fresh clams sauteed in butter -- treasure from the sea! We dug these horse clams at a minus low tide. The "gooey ducks" (geoducs) got away. Special equipment is indicated, a tubular thing called a clam gun. (Does that come with NRA membership?)
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1076720/index.htm
That's a link to a nice piece on the geoduc and Puget Sound.
