Scattered along the beaches of both the East and the West Coast, you sometimes see hard, flat discs with a faint five-pointed star pattern on one side. Although they seem like chalk or compacted sand, they are actually the *tests*, or skeletons, of a type of sea creature called a sand dollar. Shell collectors prize sand dollars for their beauty, but you need to handle them carefully to take one home intact.

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“Sea glass is physically weathered glass found on beaches along bodies of salt water. Sailor folklore claimed that sea glass are the tears shed by mermaids. #FolkloreThursday”

The Black Pebble Beach at Yaquina Bay State Recreational Site, near Newport, Oregon. A stairway leads down to the pebble beach area on the left. There you can enjoy the unique sound of the surf and the roundish stones and pebbles of black basalt around at low tide. Photo: bluepueblo.tumblr.com/post/Oregon

Colleen Beery shared recently a ritual of gathering stones from the places we go on travels during the summer. In the fall, we all bring together our own individual stones and varied waters to the …

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