Shorelarking

A goldfinch landing on a snow covered icy bird bath.

A Cold Bath
#winter #nature #photography

An irregular shaped piece of plain sea pottery lying on fine gravel, a bit of sea weed rests on top

The same piece flipped over to reveal a blue transfer pattern- a wheel and possibly a leg is just visible

#FridayFlip ! I see a wheel and a leg but I have never found the whole pattern - bicycle, wheelbarrow, hand cart? #beachcombing #SeaPottery

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Three pieces of sea worn glass, jade green, light blue and deep aqua, in a white oystershell.

#TuesdayTinies - just some blue green seaglass in a shell #Beachcombing

The letters N O in quartz on the rock.

Resting in rocks, a small grey pebble with white crystal inclusions that seem to spell out the letters N O

#SaturdaySign - not all of nature’s inspiration is positive 😅
#NoRock #Beachcombing

A round orange plastic smarties tube lid, sticking out of a pile of glossy brown and green seaweed.

Finger and thumb holding up the plastic lid to show a letter J on the reverse

#WednesdayWin can’t beat a (non-fake) smartie lid! As it is smaller sized but capital letter it’s probably mid 60s to mid 70s - older than me!
For dating tips: www.beachstuff.uk/smarties_lid... #Take3ForTheSea #Beachcombing #BeachPlastics

Margaritifera - Wikipedia

My bad, it’s margaritifera not mytilidae - it’s a freshwater mussel, the sort you get pearls from! No idea if they are called clams elsewhere. We do also have the common blue/black seawater mussels.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margari...

A large young mushroom emerges from thick moss and tiny plants. Its stipe is a bit roughly textured and is about two inches long and one inch wide. The cap, which is just as tall as the stipe but is more bell-shaped, is bright red and has small yellow-white popcorn-like patches (i.e., warts) all over it.

I love the way Amanita muscaria looks when its surrounded by green 🌱🌿🍄

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/4, 1/8, ISO 400
Stack of 14 images
11/3/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

I’ve no idea what the popular name for this specific shell in Canada but this is a mussel - Mytilis sp.

A pointed shard of ceramic, with a shiny peach finish, and some raised markings, resting on the opaque white base of an upturned bowl.

The same shard propped up against the side of the bowl which is ridged and of a similar glossy orange finish to the shard

#SundayShard I don’t often manage to identify my #BeachPottery but I’m fairly sure this lustreware shard is a bit of mid-century “fire king” lustre made by Anchor Hocking #Beachcombing

a digital painting, showing an extremely detailed strawberry patch, though only one tiny red strawberry is seen in the bottom left corner. there are occasional pops of yellow buds of new flowers, but over the image is angular shapes of leaves in various shades of green, yellow, and blue.

Dreaming of Spring
(aka 73 hours of painting leaves in CSP. you know, for fun!)
#art 🦢🐡

(Sorry for turning off replies, but I hit the Discover feed and I know to my cost on my other account that can make the replies go feral 😞)

slopAI is theft, it is ecocide, it uses sweated labour. I would never use it.

A heart shaped piece of white seaglass balanced on an index finger.

Perfect find for Valentine’s Day! #SeaGlass #Beachcombing

Partial neck of a pale seafoam colour bottle with a thick “blob top” - a single blobbed lip. It rests among grey rocks and thread like brown seaweed

Finger and thumb holding up the blob top bottle neck, it is very sea frosted.

#ThursdayThicc look at the chonk of a blob top on this #Seaglass bottle neck! #Beachcombing

A white cockle shell upturned on sand. The bladder of light brown seaweed and a small piece of brilliant light blue opaque seaglass are inside

#MindayMini a wee bit of turquoise milkglass #SeaGlass #Beachcombing

A round plastic yellow lid from a “smarties” tube, branded with the word “rowntree” resting on a wooden surface

The same lid flipped over to show a smooth back: usually these lids would have a collectable letter or number in the back.

#FridayFlip - wtf! the source of the blank #SmartieLidsOnTheBeach remains a bit of a mystery - unknown print run, factory error, some sort of knock-off product? #Beachcombing #SeaPlastic

Broken and corroded top of a pockmarked grey metal buoy with double loop top

The buoy turned over to show the inside entirely laced with white worn casts

#TuesdayTreat finding a whole metal “frog” buoy is on B’s bucket list. So far this is the most we’ve found! A well wormed fragment
#Beachcombing

About 2 dozen pieces of sea worn pottery, all different shapes and sizes, with very different vintage patterns. Some are striped, some florals, some text, etc

Close up of two of the smaller shards, one with the word “sons” and foliage, the other a stylised almost 60s blue flower

Close up of more shards, centring on one with red kettering reading “bennett & co”

#WednesdayWares - stoneware, earthenware, blueware… miscellaneous shards from beaches in Scotland #Beachcombing #SeaPottery

A large tapered oval shell lying in sand. It has shades of bright sunny orange and sky blue over a white base

#SundayShell - but also #SundaySunrise - I can see the colours of a sunrise on this mussel shell whose brown outer layer has been worn away #Beachcombing #Seashells

Finger and thumb holding a black sea worn vulcanite stopper against the background of a pebbly beach

The vulcanite stopper tirned over to show the text on the top “dunn glasgow”

#ThursdayTipple I’m taking part in an International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day today @atticbrewco.bsky.social so this vulcanite stopper seemed appropriate- Dunn’s was mostly a soft drink manufacturer so it’s a dryanuary drink from when there were no good 0% abv beers 😅 #Beachcombing

A fragment of seaworn pottery nestled among grey pebbles. Partial text reads “??? Patent / pable surface / burslem

#MondayMessage - a bit of very wordy Burslem pottery #Beachcombing #SeaPottery

Sea glass trinket dish 💍 #seaglass #stainedglass #jewelry #ringdish

An oval piece of very smooth seaglass, aqua coloured and wet so it glow like a water droplet. It tests in dark wet sand against grey pebbles

#FridayFind just a small perfect little bean of aqua #Seaglass #Beachcombing

This bobtail squid burrowing into the sand is already adorable, but please watch till the very end!

It sticks out its little arms and earnestly sprinkles sand over itself 🦑𓂃◌𓈒𓐍

A shard of sea worn pottery lying on tiny mixed pebbles. It is faded shell white with a grey pattern of fine lines that looks almost natural

#TuesdayTrick sometimes it’s very hard to tell the difference between shell fragments and #Seapottery #Beachcombing

a circular wreath on a green wall - i tis made of red and yellow beach toys, shaped like crabs, merbaids, seahorses, sea stars and fish, with seaglass and sea pottery filling the gaps.

OK the scheme was: wreath-ready and really big items; usable balls for dogs; "specials jar"; buttons, smartie lids, lego, beads; plain plastic small pieces; massive tubs divided by material e.g. plastic, metals, fishing waste. Phewph!

And the other 1000+ items? 😂 (I have a shed full of shelves and jars, just can't figure out the sorting system...). This is all unusable stuff for art or display.

Top down photo of a wooden floor, an empty tin box in the middle and piles of miscellaneous beach finds in pikes - ripe, goggles, plastic toys, pebbles, etc

#SaturdayStuff
Me picking stuff up: yay! This rules
Me having to sort out: wtf?! This sucks!!!
I struggle to figure out how to organise my #Beachcombing finds- by size? By colour? By material? By really cool finds vs everyday stuff??? (Whatever I choose my jars aren’t big enough 😂) #Take3ForTheSea