Claw

   This is a picture that I took some days ago in Golden Gate park, near Stow Lake. It is the claw of what I believe to be a crawdaddy, who has met an untimely death, probably at the hands of another animal (most likely a pelican). There it was, in the middle of the walking path, looking strange being dismebered from the rest of the small body it had come from, The rest of the body was nowhere to be found, and was possinly mostly being digested at that very moment.
   At first, I was saddened by the this sight, because although I had previously seen this creature in the mouth of pelicans, seeing the severed claw seemed more disturbing to me, till I realized that its' death provided food for another animal, and seeing this image was really only a visual manifestation of an occurence which I trust happens often and regularly at this location. In a way, it gave me hope by reminding me that the world is such an organic place, that life ebbs and flows, begins and ends, with or without me.