Humans have used mussels as food for thousands of years and continue to do so. About 17 species are edible.
Mussel poisoning due to toxic planktonic organisms can be a danger along some coastlines. Mussels should be avoided along the west coast of the United States during the warmer months. This poisoning is usually due to a bloom of dinoflagellates (red tides), which contain toxins. The dinoflagellates and their toxin are harmless to mussels,  but if the mussels are consumed by humans, the concentrated toxins cause serious illness, such as paralytic shellfish poisoning, though the red tide is not toxic to humans in direct contact with the ocean.

Sunsets & Super moon, manual mode, Canon G12. 

Geronimo was once asked how he feels about being falsely imprisoned for close to three decades. He replied, “When you’ve been through what I’ve been through, you’ve come to realize that bitterness has no place in the heart of the human being.” Geronimo lived these words to fullest extent, known for being humble, open-minded and incredibly down-to-earth. I viewed a documentary about Pete and Charlotte O'neal living in exile in Tanzania. He was a Black Panther party member from Kansas City. Geronimo "G" Pratt, imprisoned in San Quentin for 3 decades on phony charges, joined them in 2000. Upon his release the LAPD and Justice Dept. settled with 4 million dollars. Joju Cleaver, pictured here, was his wife (he passed away in 2011) . She is the daughter of Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver, Oakland Panthers. This is Bay Area history and things like cointelpro and revolutionary played loud. It's fascinating to me to only know things peripherally yet feel the general human vibe of familiarity with cause. Geronimo was Tupac Shakur's Godfather. Pete and Charlotte run a school, water program, etc for locals and travelers. And life flows on...

Nicole. Shakespeare. Sonnet 116. Love. Reading followed by fresh avo/egg salad on wheat with olive heels. To every wandering bark:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
      If this be error and upon me proved,
     I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Ever feel caught in a web? I once saw a spider fight a honeybee. Spider was Pacquiao.

Hermit crabs feast on a dead Monkeyface Prickleback while a green anemone consumes what is probably it's most gluttonous meal ever.  These two photos taken the same day. The reef is a small drama of the violent kind.