Scorpion Valentine! ...(don't miss the sunsets below!)

OK I bet this is something you didn't know about me!

I love dead bugs and stuff...Spiders-moths-butterflies ...Etc! I even have a tiny lizard (well preserved) in my little box of nature things! Well- let me just say I find these things interesting , at least! Maybe it doesn't go so far as Love. (haha) The ones I like and -YES- collect are the ones we find long dead and preserved...like this little Scorpion Charles found in an old tire and brought to me! :) NOT the ones we sometimes squish underfoot....and definitely not the little lizards I sometimes find drowned in my washing machine! ...:) nor- this one!

To find a BlueJay's feather
(shall I say- just out of the blue?) is a big thrill to me! Or a bird's nest... or tiny bird eggs or parts of the shell - or a Hornet's nest!!


Now- I know some folks might just go "Yuck" with this idea of my appreciating these things...but, on the other hand, you might be one who would collect sea shells or dried star fish and think they were really cool! Even sharks teeth are made into jewelry!

I once had a bottom dweller (scum sucker, we called it) in a fish tank that died! We just put it aside to dry out and the skeleton was very interesting; all the bones structure with these is on the outside! Not at all like other fish! I kept that skeleton in a rock garden in an aquarium for a long time! I think my grandson, Zach, finally took it!

Some folks like snake skins...my husband included...and in the past has dried and preserved at least 2 Rattlesnake skins and used them as wall hangings! The first one was kinda creepy to me and after a few years :) I insisted he take it down . He finally retired it to an outdoor shed...and a neighbor kid spied it so Charles gave it to him. However he has since acquired another one, which he proudly (to this day) has displayed in his bar!

I decided to make a little Valentine of this little -long dead- scorpion! It is actually very tiny- less than an inch long!
Cute, huh!!


Love ,

Junie