I have spent the last couple of days editing hour after hour through pictures from when we were in Pender in January. I suddenly realized that if I didn’t get through these pictures quickly, in two weeks time I will have another 2000 pictures to edit as well….well that is if the roads allow us to make the trek out to Pender.
I noticed as I looked through the images I had a lot of pictures of “beach treasures”: kelp, seashells, rocks and driftwood.
It is amazing how many of these “beach treasures” follow us home. Every room in our house has at least one seashell in it, the area under my easel has 17 small pieces of driftwood for a project I have in mind, seaweed has followed us home to Alberta as part of an eco-dyeing experiment (jury is still out on whether it is worth trying again), and my children walk around with beach glass in their pockets.
We do, however, have a policy of checking for critters before popping a seashell in a pocket. This is a lesson we learned a few years back. We had been to England and my son had popped a snail-shell into the pocket of his waterproof, we didn’t think anything of it. Weeks and weeks later we were back in Canada and my son went on an outing to the library. He reached into his pocket to play with his shell and it crawled across his hand. Talk about a surprise. The joke in the family was that we were smuggling animals into the country.
Luckily pictures of “beach treasures” seem a safer bet. They don’t crawl out of your pocket unexpectedly and they don’t smell.
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I love these beach treasures, too. In the years we’ve lived on Pender, and from many other places, I’ve pocketed enough beach glass to start my own recycling centre, Also, plenty of heart shaped rocks (always a favorite), interesting shells and the occasional dead sea star. I know we’re supposed to leave these things were they are, but they’re kind of hard to resist.
I’m definately not going to tell the kids about the dead sea star, with my luck one of them would store a treasure like that under their bed.
🙂
You are so lucky being so close to so many treasures!!
In the summer it is particularily awesome as a beach that is a 4 minute walk from our house has hundreds of purple starfish at low tide.
Hope I will see the pictures!!
You definately will see the pics!
Ove the shell photos – so beautifully colourful!
i mean ‘LOVE’ 😛
I’m happy you enjoyed the pictures.