Ninety minutes of sifting through worn pebbles at the edge of the shore of Lake Ontario on Friday yielded about a half-cup of beach glass in various colors, from clear and clear/blue, to green, brown and blue. Before I moved from Western New York, in the course of three years of frequenting the shoreline at Fort Niagara gathering beach glass, I collected about a gallon of the pieces. Typically, I find from two to six pieces of dark blue glass in a “beach glass session,” and during those three years I found just two or three tiny red pieces.
frosted glass in hand
traveler pauses on beach
waves stir rocky shore
beauty revealed by water
now concealed by a soft breeze
Ken G.
It seems there is beauty in the experience of being in nature, as well as in collecting the beach glass.
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Indeed, there is.
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It’s wonderful how nature can make something beautiful out of our rubbish. Shame she can’t manage the same magic with plastic.
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Unfortunately, I could see it as another excuse for some who litter.
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They can certainly claim that littering doesn’t matter if this is the result.
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Wonderful … I get a sense of reverie as beautiful as the glass bits.
Your photo reminds me of the sun-colored bottles my aunt used to collect on the family farm, leftovers from way back when glass was such that sunshine colored it. I have just one of those bottles, likely once a clear medicine bottle, turned a soft lavendar obscure gloss. Intriguing to think: had it been tossed in the sea it might have become multiple fragments to honor multiple pockets.
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Thank you, Jazz. I’m told the pale blue glass I find started out as clear.
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Nature does amazing things.
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Yes.
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While in Wisconsin on the shore of Lake Michigan I too found quite a bit of ‘beach glass’, clear, frosted white, greens, shade of blue and brownish reds.
I was also lucky to find some china bits from the sunken ships.
I found a clay fossil too.
I haven’t found anything in particular in my own creek though –
once though after a storm a round egg floated by. I have since discovered that owls lay round eggs. Most other birds eggs have some kind of oval shape.
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