Gifts from the earth are my favorites wherever I am. Traveling does reduce the amount collected but I feel the need to accept the gift for my memories.
Living mostly in landlocked Arizona, ocean beach sand instead of desert sand intrigues me. Yet even in the desert I may find sea shells. Though I wouldn’t find a porcupine big enough to loose these quills or an ostrich to drop a feather.
How do you collect memories from your travels?
When I travel I take lots of pics (not near as many as you do). On trips to the beach I buy cheesy beach themed coffee mugs, elsewhere I get a tshirt.
I love that you buy “cheesy” coffee mugs. I occasionally buy a t-shirt, or some other item of clothing.
Well….I think it would be pictures because I’d get arrested for taking artifacts off tribal lands or petrified rocks from national parks:) So I have to keep it simple….photos only:) I also like to collect fabrics from the various country….blankets, etc etc……then they are hung up in my home:)
Always places where I don’t gather, and of course take lots of photos. I bought a beautiful hand-woven local mohair blanket.
I like the variety of your gifts from the earth. When I travel “home” to visit my family in Newfoundland I often bring small pebbles, shells and beach glass (mermaid’s tears) back with me. I have a tiny shell and some wee pieces of beach glass in a pewter sea shell on my desk at work. It helps to ground me when everything else is in chaos.
Have a great day!
I love the name mermaid’s tears. There is a rejuvenating energy to Earth’s gifts.
I look carefully so maybe, just maybe, I’ll remember. I might take a photo, too, though I think I’m taking less as the years go by.
I’ve already labeled over 5000 photos in the first month there. Plenty of memories there.
I am a rock collector. It started with my Dad back in the 1960’s. 8*)
I was horrified to see rock collecting was against the law in the Petrified Forest National Park! Then overjoyed to buy petrified wood in the gift shop! 8*)
I too am a rock collector. But it’s a no no to collect anything but memories and photos in all our National Park sites. Thank goodness for gift shops. 🙂
I usually collect something. A rock or a feather if I see an interesting one. Rocks mostly. I found tiny bones I kept but I put them away—–somewhere. I take lots of pictures too. MB
There’s something very special about looking at or holding something from a place you’ve been.
I try to buy a magnet from each place I go to, problem is though the fridge is full and everything else in the house is non magnetic! Keep well Diane
My fridge is covered with lots of stuff. How about framing a cookie sheet to show more magnets?
Love your gifts from the Earth. They are my favorite souveniers too. So many memories of how they were given.
All things of nature are a gift.
Gifts from the earth, I love that. Visiting from Yogi’s Den and this is a lovely capture. I tend to travel with a backpack and enjoy traveling light – my favorite memories are captured in photos and little treasures like this.
Thanks for stopping by. I too take many photos to help my memory.
I recognise some of those. 🙂
I sure hope so.
Great souvenirs, Gaelyn! I tend to collect similar things, and the term, gifts from the earth, describes what I would find memorable. Of course, photographs are wonderful for capturing the memories, too.
The small Earth gifts go well with the photo memories.
I take lots of pics as well but like you I like to try and get my hands on any kind of momento I can find. Natural or not.
Well I did buy a few things while there and had to buy an extra suitcase to get it all home.