All sorts of interesting things are on the beach other than beautiful shells, and in some cases rocks, if you look out for them. In my wildest dreams, I never could have predicted that in mid 2025, our previously beautiful metropolitan beaches would be ravaged by one of the world’s most extensive toxic algal blooms. It is a challenge to continue to see underlying beauty, but I find that the decimated populations of razorclam shells provide lovely shapes as illustrated by the final few images.