unseasonably cold

it has been unseasonably cold here for…well…quite a while. so right now, mid-april is looking a lot like a typical mid-march in the north. so, while i wait for the sap to start running, i am turning to some of my more permanent collections for STILL inspiration. this is line up of gradually more eroded cockle shells is from vacations-past along the gulf coast of florida. before we decided to make our home-away-from-home in southern france, we used to travel a lot to the gulf of mexico with the kids for a week or two of sunsets on the beach. that was long before STILL. but clearly the seeds were planted, and collecting bits of nature was in my dna.

collection of florida gulf coast cockle shells