I’m taking part in the Lens Artist Challenge. It’s rare now for me to post twice in a day, but I have been waiting to use this macro photo and today the challenge seemed to present the right time to do so.
This is a cull/waste glass gathered from the earth after laying buried for well over a hundred years. Bits and pieces were dumped decades ago when the town was founded on a thriving glass industry. It is smaller than a dime. I posted more about this and where this piece, along with many others, lay in the ground: The Woods.
I collected this piece of glass a few months ago, studded with sand and bits of earth, and placed it in a plastic container with some mosses until I had time to create a terrarium. Two months later, I finally got around to the terrarium, and was surprised to find delicate lichens growing on the glass. Amazing.
MINDING MY P'S WITH Q 
I have always loved these glass gardens. Hope it does well.
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So far it has done well. The moss is still green, with no watering needed.
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Fascinating! 😎
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I agree. I love this image of very old with very new.
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Great post! I really like your first image of the green glass.
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I also love this image. It combines antiquity with new growth. I was waiting for the right time to use it and the LAC for today seemed a perfect time.
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Perfect!!
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How fun and beautiful. 😊
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Thanks so much.
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Well thanks so much for joining us this week TL – loved your glass and was fascinated that it continued to have life and growth!
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Yes, I wonder exactly how many years it lay under the earth. The factory began in the 1780’s. It’s an eerie area, no wildlife…makes you wonder what exactly was dumped there.
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Excellent. Nice terrarium! When I was a kid we lived near a Corning Glass factory, and would browse the yards for scrap ‘marbles’, very large, green, smoothly globed ones. They were almost to big for marbles, but they were free, so we used them.
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I so relate, trash for some is the treasure of others. This small piece of antique glass certainly gave me pleasure when it sprouted the lichen.
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Great take on with a story. Happy to see its still “alive” and thriving!
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