Beachcombing...

.. on a gray, misty, and drizzly morning.

I promised myself yesterday that I would get up and go to the beach this morning and I did...which was an achievement in itself. :)) 

I didn't expect much in the way of blip-ops, and I was right ... the sky, the beach, the water? All colourless, but the beach was the one place that was not icy (extra) so I spent my time on it rather than negotiating the icy promenade. 

With not much else to photograph, I focused on what was on the beach - thinking it would be a chance for me to rail on about the environment in my blip. It is always easy to find what someone tossed away, leaving more than their footprints behind. 

I will never understand the mind of folks who feel free to leave their garbage behind; they come to a beautiful place because it is beautiful, and then they defile it with coffee cups and beer cans!    

So, yes, I found cans and cups, but I also came across some other interesting bits, (extra) some of which I imagine have a story to tell. And that is something I like to do...conjure up a story behind a found object... or a person that catches my interest.  It is like a creative writing exercise....the kind of thing I used to do with my Grade Nine English students....and it is fun. I could see the possibilities in some of those things the lake had washed up...like the marine signal flare for one. Hmmm.

But the one that really caught my interest was a collection of pieces of marble tile, stones and glass all tossed together as if it was an actual "collection". 

It reminded me of searching for sea glass and being so excited to find a single piece of broken china  or coloured glass worn down by its ordeal in the ocean, but never had I found a whole grouping of objects like that; so of course all the questions came up...What is this all about?  Did someone just toss these things away and if so, who and why? and why here?  Or did the lake wash them up? If so, what were they all doing in the lake? Hmmm. 

Whatever, I liked the "collection" so much I gathered it up, took it all home, rinsed the sand off and it now sits in my guest bathroom as an actual "collection"! (main)