Glass Bounty from the Sea

Yesterday we had a miraculous turn of the weather which inspired some beach combing. OK, so it was still "partly cloudy" which I like to interpret as "partly sunny" too (as opposed to fully cloudy). And temperatures skyrocketed into the 40s! OK, 41. But we enjoyed it nonetheless. And our former high school friend, Karie Wilson (aka Karie Whitman), called to invite us to beach walk with her and her kids.

A new hobby here is collecting beach glass. Beach glass or sea glass are little pieces of glass which have been broken and tumbled by the sea to create small polished stones. They come in varying colors and sizes and interesting little facts about their origin can be ascertained. The sea green ones come from CocaCola bottles from the 1950s. The kelly green and brown colors are from beer bottles and are not considered very cool (and are also the easiest to find!). Rare colors like red and blue are coveted. Sometimes you can still make out a little of the writing on the glass. One of the pieces from yesterday has a KER on it. If you're lucky, you can even find objects like old apothecary stoppers. That's my goal to find someday. The big greenish piece on the left was probably glass that was in a bonfire one day. Besides being little pieces of history, and looking cooler than old plastic water bottles washed up on the beach, I think it's cool because you can barely notice the glass unless you are looking for it. Then once you're looking for it, little pieces turn up everywhere.