This calla lily blooms once a year, we think. The evidence: it bloomed once last year and once this year. One bloom each time.

From last year to this year, the green portion expanded quite a bit. The first few months we were here, we didn’t know it was anything but a green plant. Then one day, boom, a bloom. It seemed to happen overnight. This year we noticed the spike before it opened.

The web says bushy calla lilies that don’t bloom much may need more phosphorus and less nitrogen. It shows picture of lily plants with lots of blooms. I don’t know whether more blooms are better. Shall I interfere, or let this plant be?

Often after a new load of kelp is delivered to the touch table at the Seymour Center, we find a new animal hidden within. Wednesday we found this fascinating marine worm, shown inside its web-tunnel, built on one side of a kelp blade.

You can just make out the segmented worm inside. There weren’t many visitors that day, so we spent a lot of time observing this worm. It would occasionally stick a head festooned with quite long antennae out, waving them around. Once it ejected two brown blobs. It made a few U-turns and loops. A bubble entered the chamber, and the worm battered it vigorously until it exited.

None of the aquarists could identify this worm, though its presence didn’t seem to bother them. My husband suspects it is a baby Bobbit worm, and that soon all the other animals in the touch tank will be devoured, and perhaps later, the docents who lean over it.

Today I only had time for a short walk by the ocean, where I saw twenty cormorants clustered closely together on a rock in the ocean, some occasionally spilling off; small groups of pelicans, some flying, some floating; and a scattered flock of sanderlings chasing, and being chased by, shore waves. The very difference behaviors of various birds, plants, and worms really brings home that often-heard term, niche.