Images of the Natural World. I assume it was plant life from the sea which spread to land and this happened a long time ago. Seaweeds are surrounded by water but the land plant had to trap water. By 450 million years ago modern plants were evolving quickly. The fine rock particles accumulating on the continental land surface had to be trapped as these could hold the water which leads to thoughts about soils, roots, vines and wines. The first photo was taken on the seashore at Robe S.A. in May, 2010 when we were educating Ben's children about the joys of seaweeds. We collected a dozen different varieties over a few metres. The second depicts a beautiful album of pressed seaweeds sold by Douglas Stewart Fine Art in April, 2013. The sale caption read; 'A SUPERB NINETEENTH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN ALBUM OF PRESSED MARINE ALGAE SPECIMENS COLLECTED IN PORT PHILLIP BAY - MOSTLY AT ST. KILDA AND QUEENSCLIFF - BETWEEN 1859 AND 1882.' The verse reads, 'Call us not Weeds - we are Flowers of the Sea, for lovely, and bright, and gay tinted are we; And quite independent of culture or showers - Then call us not Weeds, we are Ocean's gay Flowers'..