The Stitching Thread

We played at the beach today. The weather has warmed up this week and we spent a while enjoying the sunshine on Surf Drive Beach. This beach and vista is the inspiration for a design of mine called “Shining Sea” that I made a few years ago while spending a summer’s day here with my kids.

This is a view of Nobska Light House in the background. My favorite thing to do is to walk along the surf and search for seaglass. I typically find green, clear and brown bits of glass, but today was a lucky day. I found a piece of blue glass and an old and very etched orange marble. I read somewhere that it takes about one hundred years for a piece of glass to be worn down to a soft, rounded and etched piece of seaglass. I don’t know how true that is, but it’s fun to think of the journey that it has been on, especially the marble.

My kids like to search for interesting rocks and seashells. Typically they would bring every rock and shell from the beach home with them if they were able to, but today they limited themselves to what they could carry. Sharing the load is important when hauling home the loot. It made for a fun afternoon outside looking over the different types of shells and rocks. I learn alot from these gals. They can tell me about slipper shells, moon shells, razor and scallop shells. 

Today was the first day of many adventures to the beach now that the weather is warmer.

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