I am spending a very relaxing week on the Massachusetts North Shore with TC and my camera and like every photo-fool I am snapping photographs of every beautiful flower that I see. Todays, Figure 1, is a macrophotograph of a Sempervivum tectorum, a so-called “hen and chicken” that I found in a flower box on Bearskin Neck in Rockport, MA. This is one of my favorites a kind of antediluvian delight. This one was madly blowing in the ocean breeze and I kept maneuvering to quiet it down with my hand as a shield.