There's a little beach, on a peninsula not far from where we live, that we visit from time to time so that our boy can search for sea glass. Fragments of blue, green, amber and white that are washed up on the shore, rough and sharp edges tumbled and smoothed by the waves.
Little gems of weathered sea glass.
While I watched my boy wandering the shore, head bent down towards the sand in earnest concentration, I strolled the path above. (Beach walking is strictly prohibited for my sore feet right now:( Although I found no sea glass along my path, there was a lot that was beautiful that caught my eye.
The wooden stairs that lead down to our sea glass beach.
The tiny, calm waves of the sea.
A view of the sea framed by a tree.
The soft, lemon-yellow petals of a flower.
The crumbling pickets of someone's back beach fence.
The colours and spikes of a lizard.
Under a tree's arch.
The red fireworks of a flower.
Tall pines like this one reach for the sky.
A heart shape in the mesh. Xxx
My boy has been collecting sea glass here since he was around four years old. He still gets just as excited, when he finds a "special piece", as he did back then. If it's deemed a keeper, he brings it home!
My son's sea glass collection.
(There's a few stones and some sand in there too!)
These pieces of once discarded bottles and glass have become someone else's treasure, my boy's precious gems. It wonder what else we throw away that would have value to another?
Meg
p.s. The links below are to little projects you can make with sea glass.
