Disco has a new daughter and her name is Infanta. Infanta broke into a canter at 1-hour old! Contact Katarina Digman at the Unicorn Ranch for more information about Disco and his stud services.
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Day and Lucky enjoying Spring!
It's safe when Day babysits
Horseplay with Fedelitat and Jr.
Horseplay in the sun
Day is watching
Day and his love Lucky
At age 2 Jr is as big as Day
 Lady Bee has a talk with Disco because her baby is late  The following set of pictures is of Disco and Lady Bee having a marital discussion  Discussion (1)  Discussion (2)  Discussion (3)  Discussion (4)  Discussion (5)  Discussion ends  Lucky tells Disco to stay put and pay attention to her  Lucky, third wife of Disco, is very jealous  "God, how do I handle all these women?"  Hard to imagine, but this is Infanta after conception 
 Clean up after birth  "Is this the world?"  First hour outside  Canter, one hour of life  Babies of the herd: Fuego, Fidelitat, Infanta and mama Bella  Rachel and Infanta hug  A week old, visiting daddy with mom and second mom Lady Bee 
 Disco, two wives and the baby  Day, though injured, was guarded by the whole herd next to KCD house for 2 days  Daydream got a serious injury but showed up to look after babies, here with Fuego  Fuego age 1, Jr age 2 and Frosty age 38 guarded by Mitia  Nap surrounded by brothers PK Jr and Fuego, with Daydream supervising the herd and mother Bella assisting.  PK takes the job of watching over all Disco's babies and herd seriously. |
Here is Infanta, at one hour old.
Just look at the adorable kiss Mama is giving her baby.
Over the past 18 months, I have spent numerous hours of diving to photograph the smallest of nudibranchs in the coastal waters of Washington State and British Columbia. Nudibranchs are sea slugs, marine gastropod mollusks, that can be found all over the world’s oceans. The word “nudibranch” comes from the Latin word “nudus” (naked) and the Greek word “brankhia” (gills), and it refers to the fact that nudibranchs, unlike their mollusk relatives such as snails, clams, and chitons, do not have shells to protect their “naked gills.”
There are around eighty different species of nudibranchs endemic to the Pacific coast from Oregon to Alaska, not counting bubble shells, sea hares, and other nudibranch-like groups. Some of them are larger than 10 inches, and others smaller than a fraction of an inch. These smallest of nudibranchs are the ones that I have taken to, mostly because of their diversity in form and color, and their difficulty to photograph.
This calendar presents a collection of my favorite images of twelve different species of these tiny and beautiful creatures. I have tried to create interesting images that engage, and that present the different specimens up close and personal. All images were taken around the San Juan Islands (with Lu Jac’s Quest) and Neah Bay (with the Anacortes Dive Store) in Washington State; and Barkley Sound (with Rendezvous Diving), Egmont (with Porpoise Bay Charters), and Port Hardy (with the Mamro Adventures) in British Columbia.
Of course, this calendar wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my regular dive buddies Marc Chamberlain, Berni Landau, and Tom Heinecke: thank you guys for all the fun we have! I want to thank Andy Lamb, Karin Fletcher, and David Behrens who also helped to identify some of the juvenile specimens, a task which can be a rather difficult endeavor as their typical features have not completely developed yet.
The calendar is printed and delivered through the publishing website Lulu. If you are interested in purchasing this calendar, please go to my website and follow the ordering links.
Nudibranchs of the Northwest Calendar
Thank you very much Ms. Gin Rischke and Hilltop Farm for the donation of a Lucitano mare Bentenda.
We do understand that you saved the mare from very bad circumstances and put a lot of effort, care and money to bring Bentenda to health. We will try our best to continue your unselfish, good work. It is our hope that the mare will be able in the future to participate in our program and in that way help others.
October 1,2012
For the Unicorn Ranch and Lorane Unicorn Program
Katarina Cernozubov Digman Ph.D
Program Director
Federal ID # 93 105 6590
Finally, the books are about to be finished. How do you like the front page design? (more…)
