One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach, one can collect only a few.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
*this quote was found on Pretty Lady's blog - I had never read it before but it was so perfect for my post today
I love to walk along the beach, if I lived by the sea-side, I would surely do it every day. I am not a water sign - being a double Capricorn, I am as earthy as you can get. BUT something about the seaside, stirs my soul. quietens my mind. While we were away, our car broke down so unfortunately I couldn't get to the beach as often as I would have liked - but the universe knows best and I did get to contemplate, to just be & to notice all the other beauty around me - the elderly man who went for a walk each day, despite his disability from a stroke, the men in their fishing boats, the pelicans, the sunrise.........AND even though I didn't get to the beach as often as I would have liked - I still managed to collect some shells & sea treasures. The walk to the shell graveyard must be done at low tide..so we had to get our timing right. This time it was around 7pm - so off I went..bucket in hand. over the sand and across the rocks til I found my first treasure - a rock!
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
*this quote was found on Pretty Lady's blog - I had never read it before but it was so perfect for my post today
I love to walk along the beach, if I lived by the sea-side, I would surely do it every day. I am not a water sign - being a double Capricorn, I am as earthy as you can get. BUT something about the seaside, stirs my soul. quietens my mind. While we were away, our car broke down so unfortunately I couldn't get to the beach as often as I would have liked - but the universe knows best and I did get to contemplate, to just be & to notice all the other beauty around me - the elderly man who went for a walk each day, despite his disability from a stroke, the men in their fishing boats, the pelicans, the sunrise.........AND even though I didn't get to the beach as often as I would have liked - I still managed to collect some shells & sea treasures. The walk to the shell graveyard must be done at low tide..so we had to get our timing right. This time it was around 7pm - so off I went..bucket in hand. over the sand and across the rocks til I found my first treasure - a rock!
a simple thing.
the collection of rocks that I collected on my walk
then I came across the shells, and like a child in an icecream parlour, I began to choose - there were millions! really. so I gathered some shells with my friends in mind and gathered some others to make myself a shell wreath to hang on my garden gate. And I gathered some shells just because.
and if you look really closely you will see my two pieces of sea glass - I wonder if they were a mermaids mirror?Then I sat and watched the rock pool. I love to just sit and watch an entirely different world beneath the water. anenomes, little fish, crabs scurrying away....a goreous carpet of sand and the pool decorated with sea glass. Just lovely. Just perfect.
