We visit this section each time we go there. We've gotten ice cream sundae cups, bikes for the grandkids, books and frying pan lids and a kitchen table, which I am hoping to use in Friendship next month... I've brought them mugs, clothes and plant pots.
Mostly we get small juice glasses. We started picking up small glasses just for ourselves for reasonable portions of any drink. We picked them because they felt good in the hand, and looked pretty on the shelf. They are now taking up quite a large portion of our cupboard, and we find that we like them better than our huge glasses.
As each of the grandchildren became old enough, they use these when they visit. This last visit they were able to pick the glass they wanted to use at each meal. For some reason I get so much pleasure in having them pick the glass they would like. So far no fights have happened and they aren't just stuck on one glass - like a dirty one, so I would need to wash it!
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You know you have to go back and look at them again. I did. I haven't even put them away yet. I want to look some more. The fancy ones don't have quite as nice a shadow as the plainer ones do, but there's still a shine inside.
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| Fancy glass... still pretty. |
A bit like life and people, don't you think? Go talk to someone who doesn't look like they have much that looks out of the ordinary about them. See what shadows they are own. I'm always surprised.
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| Plain glass... shadow looks like a clam shell? |
Beautiful! The light and shadows make these lovely glasses even more special. How wise you are to apply this discovery to people, also. There is always so much joy in your posts.
ReplyDeleteThey were so pretty in the light. It just struck me how many times I have been fascinated in the physical world and my blogging world at the variety of lives being led, or history people "own". EveryTHING and everyONE is so interesting really!
DeleteNice glasses especially considering they're free. I've heard of giving free stuff at a mall, but it's a nice recycling idea. I much prefer drinking out of a glass vessel. Same with drinking out of a glass bottle. Something about glass makes things taste better. Agree with the aesthetic factor too.
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Glass is always better! At church I insisted on buying glasses for the "bus kids" to drink milk out of at our Thanksgiving dinner. And they eat off our best china. Later, the adults have styrofoam and paper! But for at least one meal in the year, those little ones eat like royalty.
DeleteLove how crows turn into gorgeous glass reflections. I have never seen a place at the mall to drop off and pick up, but I love the idea. I also love your question: Have you ever looked at your glasses that way? I certainly will now...
ReplyDeleteOur area is on the far side of our transfer station/dump and people are welcome to "shop" there and drop off items still usable. I love it for the glasses and for toys that my grandchildren can get more use out of. I got a couple of tricycles and bikes so I didn't have to pay for one for the short time they'll need it, and then I'll just return things later when they've outgrown them, so someone else can have them! I love it there!
DeleteI love that transfer station/dump idea! Never heard of such a thing, but how useful is that? It was the reflection that caught my eye in the first picture, then I read on to discover that's what you were writing about. How true about some people!
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