We spent yesterday afternoon in Carmel. Half the time we were traipsing through jewelry stores trying to figure out what value my mom’s old jewelry had. The answer was not much. Afterwards, we headed down to the beach. It was a lovely beach day. We spent hours there pounding sand, walking up and down the beach. Along the way, we found a kelp root ball that had washed ashore. Crawling over it were some small sea stars, relatives to starfish.