Hippocampus, The Horse – Sea Monster

I texted a friend of mine,

“What color is a seahorse?”

While I waited for her response, I googled seahorse images.

I was thinking I would find orange, of course.

There was a couple sort of orange ones, but

yellow, they were predominantly yellow.

I was surprised. Hmm, I like yellow.

I got a text back, “Colors that are mellow,

like pink, light blue, lavender.”

Was she thinking of cartoon seahorses?

I asked my daughter, who happened to walk by,

the same question. She said yellow.

“Did you take marine biology?”

“No, I took genetics instead. Why do you ask?”

“I thought maybe that's how you knew about seahorses.”

“Everybody knows that. Why do you care about seahorses?”

“I have a pattern that I want to tat.”

by:  Paula D. Nevison

 

Tatted seahorse pattern can be found here.

The dwarf seahorse (H. zosterae) is the slowest-moving fish in the world, 

with a top speed of about 5 ft per hour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seahorse