My Seashell Collection

Do you ever come across an old post that is just awful? Well that is what this one was. So now it’s updated, with a link that works. It’s still not a great read, but it’s better.

My original post idea was to share some pictures of my seashells, but this one photo covers it pretty much. I gathered as many interesting shells from my Florida shell collection as I could and took a picture.

If I could still find this image on my computer I would put a big watermark over it, but since I can’t, please don’t steal this image and use it for yourself.

If winter has you down, close your eyes and imagine that you have just filled your bucket with some wonderful sea life specimens.

Are you seashell knowledgable?  Can you spot the sea biscuit, sea urchin, sundial, cowry, lighting whelk, and kitten’s paw?  If you found a rare seashell, would you know it?  Maybe you need a seashell identification lesson.  I write about seashells (and other tropical subjects) on my Seashells by Millhill blog.

Sea shells

For those who don’t know, I lived in central Florida from 1979 to 2005. Over the years I traveled to Sanibel Island and Fort Myers a couple of times (wish it could have been more) and went to New Smyrna beach hundreds (?) of times – it was only a 30 minute drive.

The kids and I collected numerous shells and I brought the collection back to New England when I moved here.  I’ve been photographing them for a couple of years now for my Seashells by Millhill online store.

The Little Bridge in Winter

I found out this past Fall that a beaver, or beaver family, had built a dam under this bridge. A neighbor had mentioned it to me and said that it was preventing the water from flowing under the bridge.

Sure enough a couple of days later I saw a tractor on the bridge and knew what they were doing. They removed the dam.

I don’t know what the poor beavers did, but they hopefully chose a better place to build and got their new house build before the winter.
Little Bridge in Winter postcard
New England Winter Postcards

It’s one of my favorite spots to take pictures. The views from the bridge or towards it are all beautiful and I used up my camera battery all too quickly.

Taking a Winter Walk

It feels like I’ve been getting nowhere fast lately.

Just a few months ago I was rising at 3am and working for 3 peaceful, quiet hours before my son got up to go to school. I was getting so much accomplished! Now thanks to hot flashes and new cats that like to play through the night, I get up groggily at 6am.

My son comes home at 3pm and my “work” day pretty much ends only to begin the evening chores of homework (his) and cooking.

Then came the holidays, which stole my valuable work time and the 2 week Christmas vacation. When my son went back to school he made it through 2 1/2 days and came home sick with the flu. It wasn’t bad, just enough for him to be home again for 5 days. Of course that created lots of make up homework which is his FAVORITE thing!!! He’s the kind of kid who will twirl his pencil and sputter about his horrible teacher instead of doing the work and getting it over with. A homework paper that should take 10 minutes takes him 30.

We’ve had some snow storms lately and that gave him another day off to spend at home and by then I had pretty much fallen so far behind in my work that it didn’t really matter.

So today I opted for a walk. It’s been far too long since we had nice enough weather, and although the road is a bit treacherous if a car comes along, I figured there wouldn’t be much traffic at 7:30am.
I knew that the snow on the trees wouldn’t last so I took all I could before the battery died. I wanted to add more photos, but the site is freezing up when I try, but I got one posted. I’ll be adding more as I can.

Winter sky
Winter Sky