You can also take in the view from the master's fantastic soaking tub or the shower, which has an intricate koi fish mosaic floor.
But what about those features — the peacock's tail, the elk's antlers, the fantastic colorings and intricate scales of tropical fish — which seemed merely ornamental?
"Tandem Pursuits: Armor & Ichthyology" presents pieces in a range of media, from intricate watercolors of fanciful fish, to aluminum sculptures suggestive of codpieces, to a video documenting a dress that inflates like a blowfish when its wearer feels threatened.
Deborah Carrino herself is an artist, and makes her living painting, glazing and firing custom wall tiles to form colorful, intricate still lifes of fish and fowl, bottles, breads and exotic birds that adorn kitchens and bathrooms.
Maud is ill enough to need a carer, the entertainingly pessimistic Carla, but is secretly articulate: Elizabeth has "laughed at my reaction to the veiny ugliness of a moulded leaf or the sick-makingly intricate scales of a fish" in her pottery collection.
A "very preliminary" assessment suggests that the environmental impact of the spill may not be severe, according to Robert Bensted-Smith, the director of the Charles Darwin Research Station on the islands.But the ecology of the Galapagos, home to many unique species of reptiles, birds and fish, is both intricate and fragile.
The lives and culture of the local inhabitants, who fished in the intricate waterways and cultivated the land as their ancestors had done for generations, have been upended in ways that have led to widespread misery.
However, TLR signalling pathways in fish might be more intricate compared with those in mammalian species because of the novel TLRs (TLR14, TLR18, TLR21, and TLR23).
In this context, the structure of fish skin, made of an intricate arrangement of flexible plates growing out of the dermis of a majority of fish, can be of particular interest for materials such as protective layers or flexible electronics.
One of the most Stantonesque moments in "Nemo" is when Gill describes his intricate escape plan: after the dentist transfers the fish to individual baggies to clean the tank, "we'll roll ourselves down the counter, out the window, off the awning, into the bushes, across the street, and into the harbor.
