Yesterday I posted about the wonderful gifts I received during the One World One Heart event and one eagle-eyed reader noticed the snake skin I have displayed on a shelf in my living room.
Yes it is.
I usually have it displayed with photos and books and stuff
I like the texture and I do think it is beautiful.
Here it is without all the stuff around it
My daughter hates it and when she visits for any length of time I move it to my office.
I have had this skin for several years now. What I like about it is that it is intact from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail. Mother Nature has gifted me with several snake skins, but this one is the only one that is complete. I feel that it is a miracle that a 5 ft snake can shed its skin and manage to keep the whole thing intact. They usually have long tears or are found in three or four pieces. This one is also so very fragile and becomes more delicate as the years go by.
Dragonfly Wings
Butterfly
Cicada Wings
I also have a large collection of maple seeds, acorns, dried leaves, rocks, shells, feathers, bones....yes bones.... and some bumble bee wings ....but I can't find them :(
So tell me. Do you have any gifts from Nature that you treasure? I'd love to see them.
Please post your gifts from Nature on your blog.
7 comments:
Marianne..I'm with your daughter on that one. I think I could handle little pieces, but a whole snake skin gives me the creeps! I love that you collect nature though.
Cool! I have a great snakeskin in a Tupperware somewhere.... must hunt it out!
Um ....
I have shells from my years walking the Sanibel beaches, and maybe a few horseshoe crab tails from the same walks (when the kids were little they wanted to keep EVERYthing.)
Nothing else that used to be alive, though.
You're so cool.
xo
Kristin
That snake skin is super cool! I'm not a lover of snakes, but I'm fascinated by them. We once found the skeleton of a tiny snake in our garage and had it for years until suddenly it disappeared. It had lived on my kitchen windowsill for quite some time.
Lucky you! I've never found a full one, just partials. I get them from my basement, ugh. But they keep the mice out and its an old cellar, so I'm happy to have them down there.
I always give the skins to kids I know. I never thought of keeping it. they are beautiful to look at.
The snake-skin is beautiful and so delicate. I have a few bits lying around, feathers, pin-cones, and a couple of ammonite fossils.
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