tiny treasures

let's look inside the butterfly box today ~

not all treasures are added to cart using dollars ;) ~

there are tiny treasures all around us <3 ~

toxic loves pinecones ~

so we have a pinecone collection right outside our window year round ;) ~

our backyard birdies sometime leave me special treasures like these ~

we've gathered other natural treasures through all our years of nature trails & drives ~

each one has memories attached ~

my son's old seashell collection gathered from socal beaches :) ~

mine from lincoln city & other oregon beaches ~

my gumby friend sally also appreciates tiny treasures ~

she sent me these teenytiny seashells from northern california beaches ~

& i had just the right thing to hold them ~

i believe i got this tiny dolphin box at the long beach aquarium on one of our visits there ~

i've since added this tiny freshwater snail shell i found at the nehelem river ~

mr dad had this when i first met him ~

i turned to my best friend & said 'who's the sasquatch?' click here & you'll see why ~

how does a seed collecting ocd vampire end up with a domesticated sasquatch for life? check back tomorrow for more like this & you'll see.. ~

meanwhile keep in mind the lucius annaeus seneca saying 'nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart' ~

& have a lovely weekend <3

bren

Comments

[Sally]

Oh, I love the tiny dolphin box that you put the tiny seashells in that I sent to you! <3 I needed to see this today and it made me smile! With my legs and back as bad as they've been, I've been wondering if I'll ever be able to look for these tiny shells again. Winter is the best time, so maybe by then, I'll be able to. I love your pine cones and feathers too! I used to pick up tiny pinecones at my mom's. Thanks for including me in your post today, Bren. <3

[ghost]

you're very welcome, sally! yeah i keep entering the publisher's clearing house 'dream rv' contest hoping we'll snag one & be able to go back out to our beaches & trails in style! lol wouldn't that be ideal? take home with us as we're getting older & even take alice too! fingers x'd!

[Sally]

That would be cool, Bren! With the gas prices and traffic nowadays, it may still be very challenging. I still dream of going back in time, not only to go to the stores and yard sales to find cool toys and collectibles, but to travel when gas was cheaper, places were less crowded, the air was cleaner, places and beaches were more unspoiled and unknown..that would be amazing! Nowadays, even the mustard flowers I like to photograph on the coast were full of people taking photos and selfies and one farm was even charging people to go on their land to take photos....

[ghost]

sally, i know the feeling, last drive we made up to our local falls (the columbia river gorge is like our big backyard! it was so packed with people & cars we got stuck in a traffic jam! even with my mask on in the bigfootmobile i felt claustrophobic :O we've been so spoiled all the years of having these places to ourselves in the off seasons & all, but after all the fires so much has been devastated.. :( i'm so glad we took extensive home movies of our drives & tons of photos, it's like a time machine going back.. & yeah i think back to all the estate sales i waited in line hours for sometimes, summer yardsales, collectible shops, glad we did all those fun things when we did.. it's like everything in its season.. now it's a new chapter, not sure what we'll be able to do going forward you know?