Jewels in the Forest of Veils

Put the world in a jar and tie it with a purple ribbon. Light a candle behind it, and when you look through the curved glass you'll see, highlighted in gold and silhouetted against flames, all the strange that you've missed. The odd, the quirky, the old and the beautiful.

smcoolbeans:

Glass Beach

During the early 20th century residents of Fort Bragg, California chose to dispose of their waste by hurling it off the cliffs above a beach. No object was too toxic or too large as household appliances, automobiles, and all matter of trash were tossed into the crashing waves below, eventually earning it the name The Dumps. In 1967 the North Coast Water Quality Board closed the area completely and initiated a series of cleanups to slowly reverse decades of pollution and environmental damage. But there was one thing too costly (or perhaps impossible) to tackle: the millions of tiny glass shards churning in the surf. Over time the unrelenting ocean waves have, in a sense, cleansed the beach, turning the sand into a sparkling, multicolored bed of smooth glass stones now known as Glass Beach. The beach is now an unofficial tourist attraction and the California State Park System has gone so far as purchasing the property and incorporating it into surrounding MacKerricher State Park.

This is the most beautiful “man-made” place I’ve seen. I never put travelling desires on my bucket list, but this place is going to have to be the one exception.

(via billiforce1)

tacticalshoyu:

French artist Rachel Lévy photographs flowers that are past their prime: wilting, fading and revealing visible signs of decay. Nonetheless, captured in the last fleeting moments before perishing, they are strikingly beautiful. 

My room is hung with bunches of dried roses - I can’t help but think that flowers are just as beautiful dried and dead as alive.

(via bookspaperscissors)

melissarobin366: 114/366. “If he thought at all, but I don’t believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water, and when they did not he was appalled. He tried to stick it on with soap from the bathroom, but that also failed. A shudder passed through Peter, and he sat on the floor and cried.” - Peter Pan [Per request of Sean Adamz, will be following up with this concept later on in this project] website / facebook

melissarobin366:

114/366.

“If he thought at all, but I don’t believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water, and when they did not he was appalled. He tried to stick it on with soap from the bathroom, but that also failed. A shudder passed through Peter, and he sat on the floor and cried.”

- Peter Pan

[Per request of Sean Adamz, will be following up with this concept later on in this project]

website / facebook