rainy day ray of light

Yesterday, my mother's friend from high school, her daughter, and I ventured to Indian Rocks Beach, where I collected quite the small collection of shells and bits of sand dollars. Looked up a few of them, some notables are the very beautifully colored pen shells found, along with jingle shells ('mermaid toenails') --- decided to make a magical mystical marine mosaic:

and here's mr. colorful calamari!